Ingrid Caven

Jean-Jacques Schuhl · 2000 CE · Novel · French · Contemporary

A portrait of the actress and singer Ingrid Caven, once married to Fassbinder, assembled from her stories of postwar Germany, Saint-Germain-des-Prés and the Paris of the 1970s. Schuhl's fragmentary, name-studded prose won the 2000 Goncourt.

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