Bernard Lambert, aka Lambert de Wallis, has just published his first novel ‘La petite fille de la dame aux sacs’. Montalbanais by adoption for ten years, professor of literature, he taught all over the world, in particular in the islands of Wallis and Futuna (hence his pseudonym), before enrolling in the Bourdelle high school. Recently retired, he finally has time to write and publish a novel that highlights the passion of love from a male point of view. Crazy about the 19th century romantic poetry that accompanies him, from Hugo to Lamartine through the literary current of symbolism from Rimbaud to Verlaine, Sharp loses his mother at the age of 10. After forty years of a so-called ‘normal’ or banal life, he knows the loving passion that brings back this first trauma and all his repressed emotions. Hortense, married and mother of five children, is carried away by this shared passion. Sharp’s cousin, the libertarian Dorothy, is twice as light and ultra-modern as he is, a real breath of fresh air in this introspection. One day he hitchhikes with the “lady with the bags” and meets her daughter whose mysterious role will appear little by little. We also meet ‘La Vache’, this consoling black and white cat very present in the novel. “Some men especially fear the disappearance of their mother. Others fear they are living a loving passion that would lead them from ecstasy to despair. Sharp the poet will face all this.” The novel is available at La Femme Renard or by email: [email protected]
