He was a waiter which made him famous in the world. A simple servant wearing a dark red robe and white headdress, which has become one of the symbols of the feminist struggle. But if Red Servant – in English The Maid’s Story (1985), published in 1987 by Robert Laffont and relaunched in 2017 with a series of the same name – making her a star, Canada’s Margaret Atwood didn’t wait for this dystopia to make itself known in the Anglo-Saxon world. He might say that he doesn’t write “not as fast as Joyce Carol Oates and not as fast as Simenon”he has written about forty works of all kinds (novels, short stories, poems, essays) since his first book, Edible Woman (ed. Robert Laffont, 2008; 2021), published in Canada in 1969.
Now, he has reconstructed this extraordinary journey in the work Memoirs (Book of Life. Red Memoriestranslated under the direction of Michèle Albaret-Maatsch, ed. Robert Laffont, 616 pages, 25.90 euros, digital 18 euros), which appeared simultaneously with “Cahier de L’Herne Margaret Atwood”, under the direction of Christine Evain (240 pages, 39 euros, digital 26 euros), is rich in many previously unpublished works. While in Paris to promote his works, the author will be at the Théâtre de la Ville for a special evening, Tuesday 18 November, his 86th birthday. Looking back with enthusiasm at the life and career he has lived so far, he said, “very pleasant”This cult writer tells it in “Book World”.
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