![]() Nearly dreamlike throughout its narrative, Matrix is governed by a complex mixture of consuming passion, aberrant faith, sensuality, and religious ecstasy. In this fictional biography of poet and mystic Marie de France, Groff explores the rich possibilities of this community of sisters, delving into questions of power, sexuality, and what makes a visionary. ![]() ![]() The youngest daughter of a French noble family and the last child in a long line of female warriors and crusaders, Marie shakes the mud from her threadbare habit and devotes herself – body and soul – to revivifying her struggling community. Surrounded by austerity, Marie is cast into a new life of another’s design. Set in the early Middle Ages, Matrix is a mystical exploration of the raw power of female creativity in a corrupt and dangerous world.ĭeemed too coarse for marriage and cast out of the English court of Eleanor of Aquitaine, Marie de France is banished by the Queen to take charge of an impoverished community of nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease. ![]() Rising American literary star Lauren Groff’s most recent novel inhabits the borderlands between myth and history. Seventeen years old, in the cold March drizzle, Marie who comes from France.” ![]()
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