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Three Women in a Mirror (2011)

by Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt

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Despite the centuries that divide them, the stories of three young women--Anne, a 16th century mystic; Hanna, a young 20th century noblewoman; and Anny, a Hollywood star of the 2000s--intersect in surprising ways.
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Bonjour,

Voici mon retour sur "la femme au miroir" d’Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt.

Pour commencer, je voudrais remercier l’amie qui m’a conseillé cette lecture.
J’ai eu un vrai coup de coeur pour ce livre et pour l’auteur.
Écrit dans un style cinématographique, les paragraphes se succèdent entre les trois héroïnes, donnant l’envie de tourner page après page.
Il m’est cela dit difficile de dire pourquoi j’ai tant aimé, car à première vue les histoires de ses trois femmes sont assez banales. Pourtant la magie a opéré sur moi, il me tardait de retourner à ma lecture.
Une fois le livre fini, j’ai ressenti un manque, j’étais encore obsédé par elles, j’avais envie de recommencer la lecture depuis le début.
Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt m’a ensorcelé. ( )
  AuroreBENITO | Aug 30, 2022 |
Trois trames distinctes liées à la fin par un effort après-coup, dont une seule qui retenait l'intérêt. Déception. ( )
  DougLasT | Apr 27, 2020 |
Three different women, three different time periods and destinies, but what if they are one and the same woman? This is what we are meant to reflect upon as we read the alternating narratives, which start with beautiful Anne, in Bruges, sometime in the 16th century. She is getting ready for her wedding day, and everyone envies Anne her gorgeous fiancé, especially her cousin Ida, who envies her beyond all common sense. But Anne is more interested in staring at butterflies and the way a ray of sun spreads across the room, and soon she is running away to freedom and nature to hide in the woods and commune with an ancient tree. Some think she has the makings of a saint. Others think she is in league with the devil.

Hanna is living in Vienna at the beginning of the 20th century. She has just married into one of the wealthiest and most prestigious families of the upper classes. Her husband adores her and desires her constantly; every night she goes to concerts and performances of the highest caliber, when she's not invited to elegant dinner parties; she wears to most up-to-date fashions, and her private fortune can afford her every luxury, yet she is unhappy and deeply neurotic. A relative introduces her to a strange new fad called psychoanalysis. She can't be seen by Freud himself because he is a Jew and good families don't mix with those people, but things are arranged for her to meet with one of his disciples.

Then there is Anny. She's the hottest commodity in Hollywood and her favourite pastime is drinking, taking drugs, and sleeping with every man she can get her hands on. Things quickly get out of control and an accident lands her in hospital where she meets Ethan, a male nurse who wants to help her get healthy, but will her publicist let her make the right choices?

I have mixed feelings about this book. One the one hand, I was captivated with the stories of both Anne of Bruges and Hanna in 20th century Vienna. All three women have independent spirits and are at odds with what society expects of them. Or at least, Anna and Hanna are, but Anny seemed like too much of a cliché of the kind we see in tabloids every day, and I couldn't stop the image of Lindsay Lohan forming in my mind every time her turn came around. But Schmitt writes beautifully and since his Mr. Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran—the only other book I've read by him so far—he can do no wrong in my eyes. This is his latest venture and a hot commodity on the French market. It should make it's way to the English world before too long. I'd be surprised if it didn’t: it's got too much bestseller potential not to. ( )
1 vote Smiler69 | Nov 22, 2011 |
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Borsboom, FloorTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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