My Double Life: The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt (Suny Series, Women Writers in Translation)
Book Details
Author(s)Sarah Bernhardt
PublisherState University of New York Press
ISBN / ASIN0791440540
ISBN-139780791440544
MarketplaceFrance 🇫🇷
Description
My Double Life is the autobiography of the French actress Sarah Bernhardt, who was internationally famed during her lifetime and afterwards as one of the classical theater's all-time greatest stars. Bernhardt's memoirs are composed with a novelist's (or actress's) sense of artistry and suspense that leaves no doubt of the charisma for which she was famed in her "double life" both on-and off-stage. Yet at the same time as this book very consciously contributes to the crafting of her image, it also illuminates a whole era: not only the world of theater, but also the worlds of women, politics, society, Europe and America, and, indeed, of history making itself.
