What a strange novel, just as endearing as disconcerting, by the theme and the tone, the literary ambition, displayed but restrained signed by Adèle Rosenfeld. It is Louise who speaks to us, a young woman close to deafness, awaiting a definitive operation, which, through an implant, will cause her to lose the little bit of natural hearing that still links her to the world of sounds. We follow this
“uprooted from language”
during the days preceding her decision on the risky intervention. “
I was used
to wandering in silences and lost words, she confides
, getting sucked into the power of the imagination.
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Employed in a suburban town hall, where she is attached to civil status, Louise hears and sees the world differently.
This is the ball of consonants and labials, the waltz of onomatopoeia and phonemes, the parade of vowels, vibrations, the noises of the city, the height of frequencies, from which Coltrane's sax or the
Elevator
trumpet for…
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