Stéphanie Chaillou

Le Bruit du monde

March 1, 2018

Novel

168 pages

128 × 200 mm

14 €

978-2-8825-0519-4

“Notabilia” collection

Marie-Hélène Coulanges, known as Marilène, grows up in Brigneau, a remote hamlet in the middle of the countryside. A place of childhood, of makeshift huts and games, a crucible of memory, Brigneau is also the place of first disenchantments, a place where poverty seems to freeze both people and things in place. Le Bruit du monde is the story of a quest for freedom, a tale of uprooting, separation, lost identity, and struggle. Stéphanie Chaillou manages to voice the secret wounds, the fear of failure, the doubts and the vivid hopes that shape a life.

Sélection Prix littéraire des lycéens des Pays de la Loire 2019-2020 – Sélection Prix littéraire des lycéens d’Île de France 2018-2019

The author

A poet and fiction writer, Stéphanie Chaillou published her first novel in 2015. L’Homme incertain was adapted for the stage by director Julien Gosselin under the title Le Père; her second novel, Alice ou le choix des armes, was shortlisted for the SGDL’s “Prix Révélation 2016”; Le Bruit du monde, published in 2018, was selected for the “Pays-de-la-Loire High School Students’ Literary Prize” and the “Île-de-France Region High School Students’ Literary Prize”; in 2021, it was adapted for radio by France Culture’s Atelier fiction. In 2024, Le Goût de la trahison was published. Revenir à Marimbault (2025) was among the five finalists for the 2026 Prix des Romancières.

Press

“A raw, unsparing novel that invites us, following in the footsteps of Jacques Rancière, to replace contempt with consideration.”

Sophie Joubert, L’Humanité.