Syncopation: A Memoir of Adèle Hugo
In nineteenth-century France, a woman’s role was explicitly defined: she was a daughter, then a wife, then a mother. This view was held by novelist and poet Victor Hugo, but not by his daughter, pianist and poet Adèle Hugo. Under such constraints, what’s a woman of passion to do? Syncopation, by Elizabeth Felt, breathes life into the unconventional thoughts of this controversial female figure. An elderly Adèle recounts her desperate attempts to gain personal freedom. Her memoir blurs the fine line between truth and madness, in a narrative that is off-kilter, skewed... syncopated.
- Author
- Elizabeth Caulfield Felt
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 240
- Publisher
- Cornerstone Press
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9780984673995
- Genres
- france
- Release date
- 2012
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