Pascal-Henri Poiget
Passionate about music, literature and cinema, he devotes himself to writing alongside his professional life, where he has co-written three management books.
At Éditions AlterPublishing, he published The Game of Marienbad (Novel 2012), Debussy, Musician of Poets (Essay 2013), Chateaubriand, Fervent of Women (Essay 2013), A Manipulator's Love (Novel 2016), The Choice to Wait (Songs 2018), The Surprise of the Gifted (Novel 2019), The Last on the List (Thriller 2023), Joan of Arc's Dream (Multimedia Theater 2024), The Detours of Competitions (News and Pantouns 2024) and a modernized version of The Prophecies of Nostradamus (French version 2015; English version 2020).
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Pascal-Henri Poiget - The Game of Marienbad
(Fourth edition)
The Marienbad game is an old game, the Nim game, renamed thanks to the film Last Year at Marienbad.
Made in black and white by Alain Resnais, Golden Lion of the Venice Film Festival, it is considered by some to be a masterpiece of cinema and violently criticized by others, like the cine-novel by Alain Robbe-Grillet, from which it comes.
Forty years later, rejuvenated, this game of Marienbad is revisited again: a suicidal teacher, a poor little rich girl, depressed gays, a serial killer, an inconsolable widower, a neurotic cat and a clone of Sleeping Beauty lead the reader into seven offbeat short stories in resolutely different styles, to be read like a novel.
In Last Year at Marienbad, a man tried to convince a woman that they had an affair the year before... at Marienbad.
In The Game of Marienbad , the stakes are different; a modern couple learns to play, fiercely and without concession, variations on love, humor, death and break-up, at a fast and tense pace, where all blows are allowed. But the winner of the game is not always the one you think...