VIVRE SA VIE (a novelization, Godard meets Fénéon)
- Stephanie

 - Apr 8, 2022
 - 1 min read
 
Written by Carmen X, @animagebook, our poetry writer, and edited by Lilah, @lilahwilliamss, one of our editors!

“Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.” — Montaigne
1 A café — Nana wants to give up — Paul — The pinball machine
2 The record shop — 2,000 francs — Nana lives her life
3 The concierge — Paul — La Passion de Jeanne D’Arc — A journalist
4 The police — Nana is questioned
5 The boulevards — The first man — The room
6 Meeting Yvette — A café in the suburbs — Raoul — Gunshots in the streets
7 The letter — Raoul again — The Champs-Élysées
8 Afternoons — Money — Sinks — Pleasure — Hotels
9 A young man — Luigi — Nana wonders whether she’s happy
10 The streets — A guy — Happiness is no fun
11 Place du Châtelet — A stranger — Nana, the unwitting philosopher
12 The young man again — The Oval Portrait — Raoul trades Nana
FIN



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