The Phantom of a Star

Simone is the heroine of one of the most mythical scenes of world cinema: it is her character who has her eye cut off with a razor in An Andalusian Dog by Luis Buñuel, considered the first surrealist film.
This "reinvented biography" plunges us into the whirlwind of the Paris of the Roaring Twenties. The Great War ushered in an era of unprecedented freedom. In the Montparnasse delirious of painters and poets, we cross paths with Simone the roads of the greatest artistic figures of the time.
The author pays tribute to an unjustly forgotten star, who marked the cinema of the interwar period. Implicitly, the rugged career of popular actresses, which in many ways joins some current feminist concerns.

Hervé Brunaux is a poet, novelist and journalist. He has published about twenty books with various publishers. In 2002, he founded the international festival of contemporary art and poetry, Expoésie.