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His Life as a Dog |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / BOOKS FROM ABROAD |
| Author: Marie-Lise Gazarian-Gautier |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 7/1/1992 |
| Size: 2,280 Words, 12,758 Characters |
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LE MARI QUI ABOIE
Laurence Salacrou
Paris: Calmann-Levy, 1990
214 pp.
Laurence Salacrou is not new at writing. The daughter of Armand Salacrou, the French playwright who became famous in the 1930s, she began writing children's stories under her married name, Laurence Delaby, and published more than a dozen tales about the lives of young Parisians. A woman with two professions, she divides her time between writing books and working at the Musee de l'Homme as an ethnographer specializing in Siberian shamanism. About those two separate worlds, she told me this: "Writing has a therapeutic effect on me. It is like keeping a diary and expressing what I deeply feel; it comforts me. Shamanism, on the other hand, fascinates me, and I enjoy studying the magic encountered among tribal ...
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... younger generations. In her third novel, Les cahiers de l'ogresse (the diary of the ogress), still in manuscript form, Salacrou questions the right to bring children into a world doomed by the atom bomb, into a consumer society dominated by materialistic values. She will no doubt continue to express her concerns when she returns to writing children's literature after this novel is completed.
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