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It seems there is no genre of writing Marie NDiaye will not make her own. Asked to write a memoir, she turned in this paranoid fantasia of rising floodwaters, walking corpses, eerie depictions of her very own parents, and the incessant reappearance of women in green. Just who are these green women? They are powerful (one was NDiaye’s disciplinarian grade-school teacher). They are mysterious (one haunts a house like a ghost and may be visible only to the author). They are seductive (one stole a friend’s husband). And they are unbearably personal (one is NDiaye’s own mother). They are all, in their way, aspects of their creator, at once frightening, menacing, and revealing of everything submerged within the consciousness of this singular literary talent. A courageous, strikingly honest, and unabashedly innovative self-portrait, NDiaye’s kaleidoscopic look at the women in green is a revelation to us all — about how we form our identities, how we discover those things we repress, and how our obsessions become us.
- Sales Rank: #408840 in Books
- Published on: 2014-11-11
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.90" h x .40" w x 4.40" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 120 pages
Review
Praise for Self-Portrait in Green:
"Marie NDiaye's Self Portrait in Green is phenomenal." — Idra Novey, author of Ways of Disappearing
"NDiaye’s two early books, All My Friends and Self-Portrait in Green . . . are so extraordinarily vivid and controlled" — The New Republic
"[C]ompelling and tightly written. . . . Rather like a Francis Bacon triptych, there is nothing fixed, comforting or coherent about the narrator’s identity or idea of herself, but the image she projects is incredibly vivid. . . . [NDiaye's] prose reads effortlessly in Jordan Stump’s fine translation." — Times Literary Supplement
"Eerie and mysterious. . . . A kind of French African Elena Ferrante." — Terese Svoboda, Guggenheim fellow in fiction
“Self-Portrait in Green is a sort of malicious reverie where the real mingles with the imagined, the living with the dead, the water with the land.” — The Express (Paris)
“It’s a book that, once read, leaves you wondering what to think about it . . . knowing . . . you had a thought-provoking evening.” — Minneapolis Star Tribune
“[W]ades through feminine fear, power, and insecurity like no other book I’ve encountered.” — Flavorwire
""[A]n exploration of the sources of fiction and the way that fiction and memoir mix . . . a representation of the artist’s mind, questions, anxieties, pleasures, and all." — Necessary Fiction
"Marie NDiaye has created a tiny, psychological masterpiece with her Self-Portrait in Green." — Three Percent
"Self-Portrait in Green is a book that defies easy categorization. . . . In NDiaye’s world, ghosts are not as rare as we might think, nor are they like other ghosts, or as you or I probably imagine [them]." — 3:AM Magazine
"Unsentimental in tone and kaleidoscopic in form, Self-Portrait in Green teems with the uncanny texture of a recurring dream. Marie NDiaye’s hauntingly spare novel works the terrain between Toussaint’s microfiction and Leve’s autofiction to gesture toward a new French narrative—smaller and stranger and toothier than before." — Hal Hlavinka, Community Bookstore in Brooklyn
Praise for the author:
“NDiaye, who received France’s most prestigious literary prize . . . may be that nation’s most startling new literary voice.” — Publishers Weekly, starred review
“[NDiaye] is increasingly—and justly—recognized as a major world writer.” — Rain Taxi Review of Books
About the Author
Marie NDiaye met her father for the first time at age 15, two years before publishing her first novel. She is the recipient of the Prix Femina and the Prix Goncourt, the latter being highest honor a French writer can receive. One of ten finalists for the 2013 International Booker Prize, alongside Lydia Davis and Marilynne Robinson, she is the author of over a dozen plays and works of prose. Jordan Stump is a two-time nominee for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. One of the leading translators of innovative French literature, he has translated books by Nobel laureate Claude Simon, plus Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Eric Chevillard, and Jules Verne’s French-language novel The Mysterious Island.
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It Ain't Easy Being Green...
By Tony's Reading List
Self-Portrait in Green (translated by Jordan Stump, review copy courtesy of the publisher) is a bizarre novella, a drifting story told by a female narrator. Moving back and forth in time, she recounts small events from her life, brief encounters or relationships with old friends. What brings all these anecdotes together is a group of women who delight in wearing clothes of a certain colour.
The first part of the book, set in the French provinces, begins with an impending flood, but we soon go back to a sunny spring day, with the narrator noticing a woman standing up against a banana tree (a person the children in her car are unable to see). It’s only when she drives back later that she discovers the woman does exist, making the acquaintance of the green-clad Katia Depetiteville. A chat over coffee at the kitchen table ensues, yet:
“When, later, in the village, or waiting outside the school, I speak of the woman in green, people will answer, dumbfounded: Katia Depetiteville has been dead for ten years or more. And I won’t be surprised, having sensed it in advance.”
(Two Lines Press, 2014)
This is just the first of many unusual encounters with women who dress only in green…
Self-Portrait in Green is a bizarre, unsettling book, moving around swiftly in a manner designed to keep the reader on their toes. The confusion isn’t helped by the prominence of a narrator who gives some of herself, but not enough for the reader to fully identify, or sympathise, with her. All we get are brief glimpses of her life as she tries to make sense of the encounters she has with those close to her (or who used to be).
What stands out, of course, are the encounters with the mysterious women in green, people who drift in and out of her life without really making a mark. There’s Katia, for one, and the wife of a friend’s old partner – we even learn that the narrator’s mother has her own special tinge of green. They are all women with a certain je ne sais quoi, people who appeal but are to be avoided. Whether in Aquitaine, Paris or Burkina Faso, the narrator faces a constant struggle to understand what they want.
So, are the women a metaphor? Possibly – but for what? One suggestion is that they act as warnings and signposts. This is certainly the case with the narrator’s friend Jenny and her regrets regarding the past:
“How to fight it off, in the face of such a melancholy? Against melancholy, against regret, common sense and cynicism can do nothing. She regrets not what was, but what should have been, could have been, had she only made some other choice way back then, and she regrets the choice she made, the path of sorrow.”
The happiness of the woman in green occupying a place that could have been hers exacerbates the sadness of what might have been for Jenny, a woman whose life has slowly gone downhill.
However, these women can also be seen as people to emulate, examples of women who know WITMonth15what they want from life. They all exude a quiet confidence, leaving the narrator in no doubt as to their contentment, even when their material circumstances leave much to be desired. In fact, with the force of life so strong in them, even death fails to make their colours fade… One thing’s for sure, though – NDiaye’s book is a very female work.
As was the case with Three Strong Women, the writing in Self-Portrait in Green is excellent. NDiaye has a talent for description, drawing the reader into her story with scents of lilac and honeysuckle and sketches of living, breathing people:
“All the young women are in shorts and sandals. The sandals’ soles smack their heels with a certain resolute gaiety. What makes that sensual? Is it the slightly slack strap that lets the foot slip this way and that, and the heels slap the sole? Or is it the vision of unveiled legs? What makes it sensual, and must the legs be beautiful, must they be lustrous, smooth and long? Or is the beauty of legs, knees and ankles superfluous for the burgeoning, in the main street of this drowsy town, of an eroticism still enfeebled by winter?”
While this eye for detail is apparent throughout, NDiaye uses it best in allowing her narrator to wonder at the confidence and sensuality shown by the green women. There’s more than a hint of envy at times – perhaps it’s no coincidence that she sees these women in green…
If you like a story to follow a clear narrative arc, this might not be one for you. The lack of clarity from the narrator, the frequent scene changes and the swings in mood in some of the sections make it hard to know at times exactly where the writer is going with the story. This is not a book where you’ll decipher the secrets in one sitting (I’ll certainly need to revisit it at some point to see if I can make a little more sense of it second time around). Still, if you can tolerate a little ambiguity (even if you may never understand it fully), Self-Portrait in Green is a book you’ll probably enjoy. A warning, though – after reading this one, you’ll never see green clothes in the same light again ;)
(This review originally appeared at Tony's Reading List)
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Incredible memoir
By Hadley H.
How is this memoir not getting more reviews? I do not understand. I first read an excerpt in A PUBLIC SPACE and I was totally blown away by the writing and conceit. The memoir describes people living and dead, women of envy and deceit. Check this out: "Jenny's mother later confides to me that the hanged woman recently knocked on her door [...] She tells me the woman was very beautiful, lovelier and more luminous than before, and she smiled with great kindness and self-confidence. 'She did die though,' I say." NDiaye subverts the very conventions of what-a-memoir-can-do. Thank goodness. Most memoirs are a real snooze.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Four Stars
By Jimmy Kickstand
Intoxicating.
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