Roman d'Amour
- date of publication: 15.03.2021
- 128 Pages
- Hanser Verlag
- hardcover
- ISBN 978-3-446-26922-4
- Deutschland: 18,00 €
- Österreich: 18,50 €
- ePUB-Format
- E-Book ISBN 978-3-446-26998-9
- E-Book Deutschland: 10,99 €
“This man, who cheated on his wife and lied to me, seemed like the most honest person I had ever met.” Roman d’amour is a finely-spun novel about adultery, packed with life experience and wisdom. It describes a duel between two women and the question of what is allowed in love and what is not.
Charlotte Moire has written a novel about an affair she had with a married man decades ago. She has turned the memory of desire and passion into fiction and has been awarded a literary prize. But now, at over seventy, she is faced with a persistent interviewer, to whom she has to insist that the story is not based on her own experience. But as she talks, Charlotte finds it increasingly difficult to distinguish between her work and her life. Imperceptibly, the stories of the two women, who supposedly have nothing to do with each other yet have much in common, become entangled. Roman d’amour is a compact and intelligent book about love and the stories we tell about love.
“A compact, clever novel about strong feelings and hopes – as well as writing.”
- Martina Sulner, Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung
“In Roman d’amour, Sylvie Schenk looks at samples of the most successful genre in literary history with precise, poetic and quiet humour. At the same time, she herself tells a love story that touches the reader’s heart over and over.”
- Andrea Gerk, WDR 3
“The way in which Sylvie Schenk links the different levels [of her novel] is brilliant. She also has some surprises in store and creates a delicate tension, which, since the end of the love stories is clear from the outset, arises mainly from the unclear conversation situation between the journalist and author. Roman d’amour is a wise, very clever, discreet book whose author could probably only be an older woman who said she wanted to write about love again before it is too late.”
- Jörg Magenau, rbbKultur
“This is one of these wonderful books in which you become the author’s confidante and are entrusted with her secrets […] So here you have a real-life love story as well as the literary history that was made of it, a lovable satire on the literary scene. And you can enjoy Sylvie Schenk’s sophisticated, entertaining and challenging writing at the same time. This is not found too often in contemporary German literature. Therefore, this slim novel is just the thing for a few nice hours of reading on the sofa.”
- Annemarie Stoltenberg, NDR Kultur Neue Bücher
“A finely spun story [...], in this dense, multi-layered and profound love story, there is not a word too many. [...] In Roman d’amour, Sylvie Schenk expands her horizon to take in ecstatic heights and melancholic depths. In other words, she skilfully unravels the many facets of love [...] A very special novel that really gets under your skin.”
- Renate Naber, WDR 5 Scala
Foreign Sales
France (Gallimard), Italy (Keller Editore)