The Stalinist's Wife
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Since love stories that aren’t love stories are ghastly, I could make a false declaration and say our union was a sordid, grotesque farce. The love story had a beginning. The end, which was already consummated when I left, was destroyed a second time after the separation. Years have gone by. I realized he would not ask for a divorce. For the conventional reasons of my civil status and my personal identity, I did.
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Original title: La femme du stalinien
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Théoret, France
[Femme du stalinien. English]
The Stalinist’s Wife / France Théoret ; Luise von Flotow, translator.
(Essential translations ; 4) Translation of: La femme du stalinien. Issued also in electronic formats.
ISBN 978-1-55071-630-6 Print
9781550716313 Epub
9781550716320 Mobi
I. Von Flotow, Luise, 1951II. Title. III. Title: Femme du stalinien. English. IV. Series: Essential translations (Toronto, Ont.) ; 4
PS8589.H425F4513 2012 C843’.54 C2012-902918-1
About The Author/About The Translator
Recognized as one of the important Quebec feminist writers and the recent winner of the prestigious Prix Athanase-David for the body of her work, France Théoret was born in Montreal. She holds a doctorate in French from the University of Sherbrooke. After having taught for 19 years at the Cegep level, she now devotes herself solely to writing. She is the author of numerous books, including the translated Guernica titles The Tangible Word and Girls Closed In. La femme du stalinien is the third part of a trilogy that includes L’Homme qui peignait Staline and Les Apparatchiks vont à la mer noire.
Luise von Flotow is a literary translator and translation studies professor at the University of Ottawa. She works from German and French to English, and has translated six previous titles for Guernica, including Théoret’s Girls Closed In. She has translated two other works by Théoret: Such a Good Education (2010) and The Man Who Painted Stalin (1991).