Chloé Delaume

J’habite dans la télévision

I Live in the Television

January 1, 2009

Novel

176 pages

140 × 204 mm

14,90 €

978-2-2900-1392-2

Chloé Delaume, J’habite dans la télévision

What we sell to Coca-Cola is available human brain time. Chloé Delaume wanted to understand what the mental availability of television viewers consisted of. During 22 months, from the morning to the night, she became a “sentinel” of television, becoming her own subject of study, submitting herself to the flow of media and advertising messages, ingesting the maximum of entertainment programs, especially reality TV, to bring back “real information”. Through this borderline experience, the narrator deciphers her ongoing mutation: brain and body are ineluctably changing. When the human being is only a tool in the service of “the collective fiction”. J’habite dans la télévision is a puzzle where each piece teems with references, teleported remarks, applying to the discourse of neuro-marketing a singular reading grid, whose lucidity sometimes has paranoid accents. Chloé Delaume’s humor sediments this text and invites everyone to question the margin of maneuver of his free will.

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.