Red Diana is the fifth novel of Patrick Grainville and the first after his prix Goncourt. It was published in Éditions du Seuil in 1978.
Historical background
With Red Diana, the myth seems to take it on "mythical autobiography"[1] cherished for the author. They found the habitual attachment to nature and to animality across the sea, scenes of fishing or hunting there. The novel escapes and multiplies mythological references[2]. Diana de Margerie rents "magical conception of the woman" and the strangeness of the book, reinforced by the initial choice of her jacket, portrait of mysterious woman by the Belgian painter Fernand Khnopff[3]. On the whole being received by critics[4], Red Diana made the object of numerous reeditions.
Editions
- La Diane rousse, éditions du Seuil, 1978.
References
- ^ La Lisière, Paris, éditions Gallimard, 1973, p. 217.
- ^ Jaroslav Fryčer, Le démon de l'autobiographie, Brno, Sborník Prací Filozofické Fakulty Brnĕnské Univerzity/Etudes romanes de Brno, République tchèque, L. 24, 2003, p. 191-196.
- ^ L’amazone de la mer, La Quinzaine littéraire no 282 datée du 1er au 15 juillet 1978.
- ^ Grainville sur les traces de Diane, Claude Bonnefoy, Les Nouvelles littéraires, no 2640 du 15-22 juin 1978.