Chloé Delaume

Au commencement était l’adverbe

In the Beginning Was the Adverb

March 1, 2010

Theater

111 pages

150 × 200 mm

12 €

978-2-8480-9140-2

Chloé Delaume, Au commencement était l’adverbe

Clotilde Mélisse is a writer. She practices autofiction, terrorism, the witch’s kiss and her laboratory research. In the two adventures presented here, she is confronted with her responsibility as an author. Responsibility not to her readers, but to her characters. Thus Charlie returns with his demands, Anaïs reproaches him for his status of demiurge; headache and squeezes of court.

Commissioned by France Culture, these two pieces were produced by Alexandre Plank in 2009 and 2010. In the radio diptych, Clotilde Mélisse has the voice of Anouk Grinberg.

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.