She put down the quill to hold a microphone.
Amélie Nothomb takes her first steps in the world of audio: the novelist has created her first sound series around mythologies, available from February 18 on the Audible audio book platform, she announced to the AFP.
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With "
The divine comedy of Amélie Nothomb
", the author proposes a "
mythological journey from hell to paradise
", exploring the myths and legends of the world (Greek and Latin Antiquity, Scandinavia, Asia ...) through literature and the arts, especially music.
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She co-wrote this audio documentary in 11 episodes with Laureline Amanieux, producer and director of the program.
"
I really liked the fact that there are no images
", confides the novelist, who admits to having always "
preferred radio to television, especially in the blessed days when we weren't filmed
" in the studios of the stations.
She grew up in mythology
The novelist says she grew up with mythology.
"
It goes back to my earliest memories
": "
the Japanese mythologies of my early childhood, the Catholic religion in which I was brought up, the Greco-Latin myths learned from my early adolescence, or those learned later
", such as mythology Scandinavian, she explains.
The audio series explores the springs of the human soul and the themes that fascinate: for example the descent into Hell, explored in the first episode through the myth of Orpheus,
Dante's Divine Comedy
and the works of Rodin.
“
We all live with the idea that everything will end one day and I've always thought, since I was little, that avoiding the question was stupid.
Being totally alive means fully accepting death and not shying away from it, the absolute dream of art being to anticipate it in a non-irreversible way,
”adds the successful writer.
With this audio creation, Audible, a subsidiary of Amazon, is expanding its content offering, in addition to audio books, its core business.
"
We are the leading producer and distributor of spoken audio content, which is a lot of audio books, and we have the vocation and the desire to invest in this very vast field of audio creation
", says Ainara Ipas, director of
audio creation.
content from Audible France.
"
We develop original productions
", "
designed for audio
" and which can only be told through this medium, she adds.
This “
allows us to create an intimacy and to get us inside the heads of their creators like Amélie Nothomb
”, by relying on immersive technologies such as binaural sound.
The platform, which has a production studio in Paris, has already launched audio series in French in several genres (fiction, thrillers, humor), a sound recipe program with Cyril Lignac, and produces content around the world. such as "
Alien
", "
X-Files
" or the manga "
Death Note
".