Ariane Lessard

École pour filles

Girls’ School

August 1, 2020
Novel
144 pages
130 × 200 mm
9782897071059
978-2-8970-7105-9
																Ariane Lessard, École pour filles
																Ariane Lessard, École pour filles

A choral novel that celebrates ecology, feminism and occult knowledge.

A vast boarding school in the forest. Through the slabs grows a resilient vegetation, with roots that forget nothing and nobody. Ancient knowledge is heard on the walls. The school is attended by girls with names that seem to come from a spicile: Ariandre, Diane, Laure, Annette and others, some older, some gone, as well as by the teachers and Dame Françoise in the kitchen. And Dame Angoisse, the concierge.
They learn algebra and vocabulary, but some also know the forest. Some talk too much, others not at all. Lady Anne has a bad fall. Colette and Corinne exchange touches. Ariandre writes.

École pour filles is a dense choral work, narrated in a rich and furiously free language, a novel that smells of damp stone corridors, garden plants, the whipping fir tree and the river that carries away.

The author

Ariane Lessard was born in 1990 in Lévis, not far from a monastery of cloistered sisters. She published her first novel Feue à la Mèche in 2018, which was a finalist at the Rendez-vous du premier roman. In 2019, she co-edited Zodiaque, a collective of women authors on astrology published at La Mèche Editions. The same year, she participated in the collective Stalkeuses published by Québec Amérique, and also published texts in the magazines Zinc and Lettres québécoises. She explores photography, costume and short texts through Instagram and her Lietteville zines.

École pour filles is her second novel. She is currently working on a book that will combine narrative, photographic archives and drawings.

Strong points

A highly anticipated novel from the author of Feue (La Mèche Editions, 2018) and co-director of the Zodiaque collective (La Mèche Editions, 2019).

August 1, 2020
Novel
144 pages
130 × 200 mm
9782897071059
978-2-8970-7105-9