A fascinating journey in the footsteps of extraordinary, forgotten women.
Parmi les femmes is a book-mausoleum in tribute to twenty-eight women neglected by history: women of, muses of, daughters of, artists, works of their own, resistance fighters, committed citizens whose destinies crisscrossed the roads of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire on which Aimée Lévesque wandered. From Nora Barnacle, James Joyce’s wife, to Zdeňka Hejduková, a young Czech killed by the Nazis for an unknown reason, to Inela Nogić, elected Miss Sarajevo in the besieged city in 1993, this literary monument in the form of a travel diary offers a feminine and personal history of Central Europe and the Balkans. The result of colossal research work over several years in different languages, Aimée Lévesque’s text alternates between prose and free verse, proposing to turn history into a dialogue, in which documentary quest, field research and poetry support and nourish each other.
