Chloé Delaume

Chanson de geste et opinions

Song of Gesture and Opinions

March 1, 2007
Essay
100 × 170 mm
9782916324210
978-2-9163-2421-0
																Chloé Delaume, Chanson de geste et opinions
																Chloé Delaume, Chanson de geste et opinions

Since 2006, the Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne has invited authors to take up the universe of artists in its permanent collection and turn it into short fictions.

The subject of this little book is the work of Pascal Pinaud, and more precisely his gesture as a painter. Parodying Vladimir Propp’s Morphology of Fairy Tales, it features three characters borrowed from Raymond Queneau: the Duke of Auge, the young Zazie and the parrot Laverdure. Their quest will consist in satisfying the whim of an ubiquitous and collecting queen, who requires “the essence of PPP”, an acronym used by the artist “Pascal Pinaud Peintre”.

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 1, 2007
Essay
100 × 170 mm
9782916324210
978-2-9163-2421-0