Gyrðir Elíasson

La fenêtre au sud

South Window

September 10, 2020
Novel
168 pages
128 × 190 mm
18 €
9782924898734
978-2-9248-9873-4
Translated from the Icelandic by Catherine Eyjólfsson

“Littérature étrangère” collection

																Gyrðir Elíasson, La fenêtre au sud
																Gyrðir Elíasson, La fenêtre au sud

A romantic sonata, masterful and reflexive, between Bergman and Murakami.

A village of black houses facing the infinity of the water in Iceland, by the sea. In his lair, a novelist struggles, on his old Olivetti, to write the truth about a couple who went on holiday to find themselves. Who’s having fun? he wonders, leaving the typewritten pages under the bright south window. The radio, meanwhile, gives news from another world: the earthquake in Fukushima, the assassination of Bin Laden, the war in Syria. To the rhythm of the four seasons of the year, like a Nordic counterpoint to Vivaldi’s famous concertos, South Window transforms this simple story of love and ghosts into an immense book about the twilights of creation. As the ink runs out, the writer will soon be typing white on white, walking across the page like one walks in the snow.

The author

Born in 1961, Gyrðir Elíasson is a novelist and poet. The second book of a triptych about solitude, South Window follows the novel The Book of Sandá River (2019). Squirrel Excursions (2017) is also available in French translation from La Peuplade publishing house. Requiem completes his trilogy on loneliness
and artistic creation.

Bibliography

The Book of Sandá River (2019)

September 10, 2020
Novel
168 pages
128 × 190 mm
18 €
9782924898734
978-2-9248-9873-4
Translated from the Icelandic by Catherine Eyjólfsson

“Littérature étrangère” collection