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Adam Mars-Jones: On Dominique Fernandez, 20 March 2025

Les Trois Femmes de ma vie 
by Dominique Fernandez.
Philippe Rey, 257 pp., €20, October 2024, 978 2 38482 114 3
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... Not many​ people born in 1929 are still productive, but Dominique Fernandez, winner of the 1982 Goncourt Prize for the novel Dans la main de l’ange, turned 95 a little before his new memoir, Les Trois Femmes de ma vie, appeared – the three women are his grandmother, mother and wife. It wasn’t even the first book he published last year, but followed the novel Un jeune homme simple ...
... France represents a different social configuration. There are many outstanding gay writers – Dominique Fernandez, Tony Duvert, Renaud Camus, as well as several who have died in the last decade, such as Hervé Guibert, Guy Hocquenghem and Gilles Barbedette – but I’m sure none of these writers except possibly the militant ...

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