Chloé Delaume

Certainement pas

Certainly Not

March 25, 2022
Novel
320 pages
100 × 170 mm
9782757891384
978-2-7578-9138-4
																Chloé Delaume, Certainement pas
																Chloé Delaume, Certainement pas

In the smoking room of a pavilion of the Hôpital Sainte-Anne, three men and three women confront their past, secretly heavy with daily abjections and compromises. Orchestrated by the ghost of Dr. Lenoir, a strange game of Cluedo will take the place of a trial, letting each of them unmask themselves as the rounds go by. All have committed a crime: that of having given in, of having adapted, of having become the servants of a system, of having bent the knee to market values.

For these six characters in search of their hearts, pathologies are only refuges, the ultimate escape after a too late realization. Endearing in their blindness, they remain no less guilty. Extremely representative of the failings of contemporary society, these characters are certainly not victims.

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.

March 25, 2022
Novel
320 pages
100 × 170 mm
9782757891384
978-2-7578-9138-4