2 Novels by Sylvie Germain
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Overview: Sylvie Germain, France (b.1954) received a doctorate in philosophy from the Sorbonne, and taught it at the French School in Prague from 1987 to 1993.
She claimed that philosophy, ‘a continuous wonder’ to her, was also too ‘analytical’, and she switched from Descartes and Heidegger to Kafka and Dostoevsky.
She grew up in rural France, in an area steeped in mythology and folklore, and she admitted ‘that the power of place had a huge effect on me but it was an unconscious one’.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
Prague Noir: The Weeping Woman on the Streets of Prague (1992)
“An intricate, finely crafted and polished tale, The Weeping Woman brings magic-realism to the dimly lit streets of Prague. Through the squares and alleys a woman walks, the embodiment of human pity, sorrow, death. Everyone she passes is touched by her, and Germain skilfully creates an intense mood and feel in her attempt to produce a spiritual map of Prague.” The Observer The figure of this bereft woman develops into a memorable symbol: her sudden appearances – on a bridge, in a square, in a room – haunt the book like history, moved to tears.” Robert Winder in The Independent “a haunting classic” Madeleine Kingsley in She Magazine
Magnus (2008)
Magnus is a deeply moving and enigmatic novel about the Holocaust. It has been Sylvie Germain’s most commercially successful novel in France.
Magnus is a man searching for his own identity, who pieces together the complex puzzle of his life, which turns out to be closer to a painting by Edward Munch than the romantic tale of family heroism and self-sacrifice on which he was nurtured by the woman he believed was his mother.
In Magnus, Sylvie Germain uses imagination and intuition to unlock the enigma of human life and confer on history the power of myth and fable.
Magnus won the Goncourt Lyceen Prize, selected by French High School Students as the best novel of the year from the main Goncourt Prize Shortlist. It is a short and profound novel suitable for 16-year-olds upwards and is a good starting point for exploration of the Holocaust.
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