Chloé Delaume

Dans ma maison sous terre

In my House Under the Ground

January 1, 2009
Novel
216 pages
140 × 200 mm
9782020983020
978-2-0209-8302-0
																Chloé Delaume, Dans ma maison sous terre
																Chloé Delaume, Dans ma maison sous terre

It’s a cemetery. Where Chloé is trying to write a book of revenge, a book that could kill. Her target is her grandmother, a woman devoid of empathy, who has revealed a family secret to her through a third party. One of those secrets that devastate and ruin identity. Théophile appears, a strange character, a great regular of the place. With him, Chloé visits the graves and hears the dead confide in them one by one. Each one has its story, its music, its song. And its lesson, perhaps. Which could be useful to the reconstruction of this destroyed self.

Interweaving personal quest and the voices of the dead, Dans ma maison sous terre is a novel that questions our relationship to death, literature and psychoanalysis.

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.

January 1, 2009
Novel
216 pages
140 × 200 mm
9782020983020
978-2-0209-8302-0