Paris-Trilogie

Woman, friend, lover, mother, writer: Colombe Schneck looks at her milieu with a cool gaze and her life with deep emotion. "This literature is of enormous importance; it is full of power and vitality. A profound reflection on existence at different stages of life." Deborah Levy.

Colombe grows up in the 1980s as the child of left-liberal Jewish parents in the Parisian bourgeoisie. When she becomes unexpectedly pregnant at seventeen, it abruptly pulls her out of the carefree existence she had known and the certainty that she could have it all. This marks the first major turning point in her life. The second: the much too early death of her best friend Héloïse, with whom she had been closely connected since school. The two attended the best schools and universities, were professionally successful, and yet led a strangely unliberated life. Why is that? The third turning point is an unexpectedly intense love at the age of fifty, perhaps the happiest of her life.

Colombe Schneck always tells her story personally yet in a strikingly exemplary manner. Her Paris trilogy brilliantly addresses the major themes in a woman's life - body, sexuality, class, origin, friendship, love, death.