Book Review: Truismes by Marie Darrieussecq

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Book Review: Truismes by Marie Darrieussecq

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Truismes is deeply graphic, especially in terms of sexual violence. Dealing with a wide array of topics – beauty, fascism, metamorphosis, the job market, race & gender, nature, etc, rendering it hard to pin down. The narrator itself is to be pitied but also not to be trusted, creating tension with the story she tells to her readers. It is an interesting, disturbing read.

“Those we love never truly leave us, Harry. There are things that death cannot touch.” 

“In every shining moment of happiness is that drop of poison: the knowledge that pain will come again. Be honest to those you love, show your pain. To suffer is as human as to breathe.” 

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