Chloé Delaume

Une femme avec personne dedans

A Woman with Nobody Inside

January 5, 2012
Novel
144 pages
15,20 €
9782021020946
978-2-0210-2094-6
																Chloé Delaume, Une femme avec personne dedans
																Chloé Delaume, Une femme avec personne dedans

The Apocalypse is not a visible event, because it strikes individually. Thus, the narrator complies with the order of the announcing Angel: Write down what you have seen, what is, and what must happen next. She sets out to tell the story of a certain End of Times, that of patriarchal and normed values, embodied by the heterosexual couple. Modifying reality is the only solution, but the use of fiction becomes complicated when it generates suicide within its own readership.

Beyond its exercise in deconstruction, this book is a love novel. Chloe, Igor, the Key, a woman, a man, a woman, some possibilities. To attempt alternative forms of life is always to come up against a questioning of one’s identity. It is up to the reader to choose, and perhaps to invent what should happen next. To the heroine, as to himself. Chance does not exist, so we might as well get organized.

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.

January 5, 2012
Novel
144 pages
15,20 €
9782021020946
978-2-0210-2094-6