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The Book About Blanche and Marie
Boken om Blanche och Marie
Per Olov Enquist (born 1934)
Translated by Tiina Nunnally
English editions
In EnglishThe Story of Blanche and Marie
Vintage · United Kingdom · 6 September 2007 · Paperback · 224 pages
The Book About Blanche and Marie
Overlook Press · United States · March 2006 · Hardcover · 218 pages
The Story of Blanche and Marie
Harvill Secker · United Kingdom · 2006 · Hardcover · 218 pages
The Book About Blanche and Marie
Overlook Press · United States · 3 April 2007 · Paperback · 240 pages
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At the Salpêtrière in Paris, Blanche Wittman was the star patient of the neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot, who treated hysterical women with hypnosis before audiences that included Strindberg, Axel Munthe and the young Freud. After Charcot's death she recovered and found work in Marie Curie's laboratory, becoming the scientist's confidante when Curie's affair with the married physicist Paul Langevin turned into a public scandal. Now dying, her body ravaged by radiation, Blanche sets down her love for Charcot and the story of Marie's love for Langevin: a story of love, possible and impossible, in fin-de-siècle Paris.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 257 pages in the original
- Genres
- Historical, Love (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- France, late 19th – early 20th century
- First published
- 2004 by Norstedts
- Author's age
- 70 when first published
- ISBN
9789113013602 (original)
9781585676682 (Overlook Press, United States)
9781843432333 (Harvill Secker, United Kingdom)
9781585678884 (Overlook Press, United States)
9780099483731 (Vintage, United Kingdom)
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