Chloé Delaume

La nuit je suis Buffy Summers

At Night I'm Buffy Summers

August 28, 2020

Essay

152 pages

110 × 170 mm

13 €

978-2-9561-7825-5

Chloé Delaume, La nuit je suis Buffy Summers

The psychiatric hospital where you are staying is in turmoil. Your cellmates are restless, the nursing staff is tense; rumors are spreading, incidents are multiplying. You don’t see the connection between the organ trafficking orchestrated by the head nurse and Buffy Summers, aka the Slayer, the TV heroine. Yet you will have to investigate, survive, and maybe even save the world. That is, if you’re willing to play.

An interactive novel inspired by the traditional books in which you are the hero, La nuit je suis Buffy Summers mixes fanfiction and literary detour.

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The author

Chloé Delaume was born in 1973. She has been writing in many forms and media since the late 1990s. She has written nearly thirty books as if they were experiments: novels, poetic fragments, plays, essays, self-fiction. She is fond of hybrid objects and the mixing of genres: a novel illustrated by a video game (Corpus Simsi), the hijacking of a board game (Certainement pas), fan fiction in which you are the hero (La nuit je suis Buffy Summers). But also diary of a home performance (J’habite dans la télévision), dystopia (Les sorcières de la République). If her first novel, Les mouflettes d’Atropos, was tinged with radical feminism, she later focused on the issue of sisterhood by publishing Mes bien chères sœurs and the collective work Sororité.
Winner of the Prix Décembre 2001 for Le cri du sablier, she was a resident at the Villa Médicis in 2010-2011 and won the Prix Médicis 2020 with Le cœur synthétique.