Albertina Sarrazen, published half a century ago, “My name is Astragal” bypassed the whole world. Written in prison, where she spent several years and where she went to prostitution and theft more than once, he brought her real glory. Brought up by foster parents – she never knew the real ones – Albertin at the age of sixteen escaped from school for difficult to sleep and tried to survive in Paris in all permissible and unreasonable ways. And all this time, in captivity and free, she wrote. Recognition came shortly before death. Having released three bestsellers in a row, Albertin Sarrazen died at thirty years from a medical error, not having lived even a year after the publication of the last part of the trilogy.
All the events in question in the novel are genuine. The escape from prison, life is outlawed, crazy love against the backdrop of prison memories and constant fear to be behind bars described with maximum sincerity. And interest in the book after so many years does not fade away. She was recently reprinted in …
Author
Sarrazen Albertin
Translator
Mavelvich Natalya Samoilovna
Publisher
Corpus, 2014
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