Marcelle Sauvageot

Fiction. Translated from the French by Christine Schwartz Hartley and Anna Moschovakis. COMMENTARY is a narrative—hovering between the genres of memoir, theory, and fiction—about a female artist whose abandonment by a lover precipitates a refiguration of her ideas on life, love and art. Sauvageot died, after many stints in sanatoriums, at the age of 34. Commentaire was highly prasied in its time by Paul Claudel, Paul Valéry, André Gide, Charles Du Bos, René Crevel ou Clara Malraux. This edition is co-translated by Christine Schwartz Hartley (African Psycho) and Anna Moschovakis (The Jokers, The Possession). When, in the morning, daybreak awakens us f rom a dream, we close our eyes and remain still, trying to recreate and continue the scene. But the day's light has destroyed everything: words are without sound, gestures without meaning. It is like a vanishing rainbow: some hues survive for an instant, disappear, seem to return: there is nothing left.

Commentary

Une jeune femme, dans le train qui la conduit au sanatorium dont elle ne reviendra peut-être pas, lit la lettre de rupture de son amant et lui répond au nom de cette vie qu'elle risque de perdre, mais qu'elle veut sans compromis ni tiédeur. Un texte publié en 1934, l'année de la mort de l'auteur.

Marcelle Sauvageot

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