Maylis de Kerangal is a French author. Her novels deeply explore people in their work lives. She has won many awards for her work, and her novels have been published in several languages. Two have been adapted as films.
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I began to think about its double nature: on the one hand you have an organ in your body and on the other you have a symbol of love.
On the heart as the focus for her book Mend the Living in “‘What is a heart? You have an organ in your body and you have a symbol of love’”
So the novel is a race, and I can see the finish line from the first sentence: it’s an intuition that magnetizes the entire text.
On the endings of her works in “Maylis de Kerangal by Jessica Moore” in Bomb Magazine (2015 Dec 15)
I love when a crucial novel leaves a trace in my memory. In this, its ending plays a significant part - creating a wake effect that is never erased.
On the writings that she favors in “Maylis de Kerangal by Jessica Moore” in Bomb Magazine (2015 Dec 15)
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