Sub-Rosa is a reading group that meets once a month to discuss feminist and obscure literature. Our selection for this month is Being Here Is Everything by Marie Darrieussecq.
We will meet Saturday, September 28 at 6:30 p.m. at the store. A reminder will be sent out the day before the meeting.
If you are interested in attending please send us your email to bookbeatorders@gmail.com
Books are in stock and discounted 15%.
The short, obscure, and prolific life of the German expressionist painter Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907), a significant figure in modernism.
First published in France in 2016, Being Here Is Everything traces the short, obscure, and prolific life of the German expressionist painter Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907). In a brief career, cut short by her death from an embolism at the age of thirty-one, shortly after she gave birth to a child, Modersohn-Becker trained in Germany, traveled often to Paris, developed close friendships with the sculptor Clara Westhoff and the poet Rainer Maria Rilke, and became one of her generation’s preeminent artists, helping introduce modernity to the twentieth century alongside such other painters as Picasso and Matisse.
Marie Darrieussecq’s triumphant and illuminating biography at once revives Modersohn-Becker’s reputation as a significant figure in modernism and sheds light on the extreme difficulty women have faced in attaining recognition and establishing artistic careers.
“A biography full of life force, drafted in the present with grace… Dazzling!”—Lire Magazine
“A magnetic portrait of a woman, taking shape through the seemingly simple, but always so beautiful, writing of Marie Darrieussecq.”—Elle
“Between the lines, this very beautiful text is read as a feminist manifesto, that constantly questions the place for women in art.”—Vogue
Marie Darrieussecq published her first novel, Pig Tales, in 1996 at the age of twenty-seven, and it became an overnight sensation and bestseller, selling more than 300,000 copies and translated into more than thirty languages.
The New Yorker described her as France’s “best young novelist,” and she is recognized as one of the leading voices of French contemporary literature. Her novel Men was awarded the Prix Médicis and the Prix des Prix in 2013.