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Nuages dans la main
The story is set in Geneva, more precisely at the International Labour Office (ILO), against the backdrop of the Spanish Civil War.
Comme le sable
Comme le sable (As the sand) inaugurates what Alice Rivaz had conceived as a ‘novelistic cycle’ in several volumes.
Becoming a writer
Thanks to an independent lifestyle and a home of her own in Geneva, Alice Rivaz published her first novel in 1940.
Biography
Timeline of the life and works of Alice Rivaz
Writing history
The author questions the normality of sheltered lives, and their blindness in the aftermath of the First World War.
Yves Laplace, Plaine des héros
This novel combines the individual and the universal, while weaving issues of the past and the present, and a quest for both one’s self and the truth, a quest which also pervades Alice Rivaz’ œuvre.
Correspondence
Epistolary exchanges between Alice Rivaz and renowned literary writers of her time.
Creuser des puits dans le désert. Lettres à Jean-Claude Fontanet
As the correspondence between Alice Rivaz and Jean-Claude Fontanet illustrates so well, friendship is more a matter of encouragement than confiding in one another, about constant trust rather than frequent contact.
Les Enveloppes bleues. Correspondance 1944-1951
A famous author was amazed by a short story written by a woman and so sent her his congratulations. She wrote back.