Description
A nameless narrator, haunted by the Garonne River and gripped by an obsession with mysterious “green women,” travels through cities and countries in search of answers that never quite arrive. Written as diary entries, the novel unfolds in lyrical, dreamlike fragments where each encounter—whether real or imagined, alive or dead—reshapes the narrator’s sense of identity, memory, and desire. As the line between memoir and invention blurs, the story turns unsettling, probing paranoia, longing, and the stories we tell ourselves to survive. With Marie NDiaye’s hypnotic, sharply observant prose, this prize-winning subversion of the self-portrait becomes a haunting meditation on how perception can both reveal and distort the truth.
Available Editions
paperback
Influx Press
Published Feb 25, 2021
80 pages
ISBN: 9781910312902
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Details
First Published
2005
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Self Portrait in Green by Marie NDiaye.