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The Hurt is the story of a first relationship at the age of eighteen. But is it?
In The Hurt time is reshuffled and mixed up. As Saint Phalle says, ‘Pain ran through my thoughts like a wild animal, making nonsense of past, present and future.’
The intriguing narrative is a beguiling mix of memoir and parable, infused with remarkable characters, humour and pathos, and Parisian light.
The author is drawn to the different and the marginalised. Her insight into herself and others arises from her deep understanding of the flawed nature of the human condition. And the company of great books.
She writes ‘books were my real teachers. I can’t remember learning a single thing in a classroom. The craft of reading was the only one I really took away from that dreadful time.’
Just perhaps hurt can be both our undoing and our making, as this story of sliding time illuminates. The Hurt is a remarkably honest and captivating work of literature.
Contemporary, Literary
About The Author
Catherine de Saint Phalle was born in London, spent her first years in Sussex, England and lived in Paris and the South of France. She moved to Melbourne in 2003 and lives in Brunswick.
She has had six books published in France and this is her fifth book with Transit Lounge.
English was her mother tongue and when she became an Australian citizen it all came together – she found that the language of her childhood made her heart beat in Australian-English.
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