Nathalie Léger's writing delves into the lives of creators, examining the overlooked and the marginalized to craft distinctive literary works. Her style is marked by a deep engagement with the interplay of art, biography, and memory, often drawing inspiration from archival research and historical figures. Léger explores the boundaries between fiction and reality, challenging conventional narratives and offering new perspectives on artistic legacies. Her work invites readers to consider the power of untold stories and the ways in which lives and art echo through time.
Wanda (1970) a cult film classic, exerts a fascination for artists from Isabelle Huppert to Rachel Kushner to Kate Zambreno. For acclaimed French writer Nathalie Leger, the mysteries of Wanda launched an obsessive quest across continents, into archives, and through mining towns of Pennsylvania, all to get closer to the film and its maker.
Inspired by the Italian performance artist Pippa Bacca who tragically died while hitchhiking in Europe to promote world peace under the motto `marriage between different peoples and nations', symbolically wearing a wedding dress. In this incandescent short book, Leger closes the third part of a trilogy begun with Suite for Barbara Loden.
The Countess of Castiglione was considered the most beautiful woman in the world in the late-19th century, and she became the most photographed woman of her time. A fascination with her life led the writer Nathalie Leger to weave together this imaginative biography of a woman who was over-exposed but never really understood in her own era.