Chloé Delaume

Phallers

April 5, 2024
Novel
160 pages
8,90 €
9791041410866
979-1-0414-1086-6
																Chloé Delaume, Phallers
																Chloé Delaume, Phallers

The first novel in the “Points féminismes” collection by Chloé Delaume, winner of the Prix Médicis 2020.

How this was made possible, nobody knows; it’s just happening, that’s all. So, very suddenly, a number of girls and women have the psychic ability to implode phalluses. These special kind of superheroines are called Phallers.
Seventeen-year-old Violette could have done without this strange power. But she, like everyone else, would like to provide an answer to the crucial question that haunts our society: how do we get men to stop raping?

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.

Noteworthy

The songs featured in the novel can be found in the album Sentiments négatifs by Chloé Delaume (dokidoki éditions).

April 5, 2024
Novel
160 pages
8,90 €
9791041410866
979-1-0414-1086-6