The Beach of Ostend
the Beach of Ostend is generally regarded as the Romance more succeeded of Jacqueline Harpman. It is appeared in 1991.
When at 11 years Emilienne Balthus sees for the first time Léopold Wiesbeck, it is taken of a passion that nothing will be able to extinguish. Consequently, its life will be built according to this goal: the “collecting of Léopold”.
Psychoanalytical reading
In this novel, the question of the glance and the myth of Narcisse constitute an indisputable backdrop. To be made like of Léopold, Emilienne will become him , with the colors of its tables and its life.
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