Brigid Brophy (1929-1995) was a prize-winning British novelist, essayist, critic and political campaigner, championing gay marriage, pacifism, vegetarianism, prison reform and Public Lending Right. Her celebrated debut novel,
Hackenfeller's Ape, was published in 1953. It was followed by many other acclaimed novels including
The King of a Rainy Country, Flesh, The Finishing Touch,
In Transit, and
The Snow Ball (which Faber are reissuing with a new foreword by Eley Williams), as well as critical studies of Mozart, Aubrey Beardsley and Ronald Firbank, among other subjects. Brophy's marriage to art historian Michael Levey encompassed a thirteen-year relationship with
Iris Murdoch. She died in 1995.
Comédie de mœurs un brin scandaleuse, véritable festin sensuel avec en fond sonore et théâtral le Don Giovanni de Mozart,La Boule de neige est une œuvre culte, à redécouvrir d'urgence.
Tandis que la neige tombe en ce réveillon de Nouvel An, un manoir londonien vibre au rythme d'un...
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