Chantal Thomas tells her story discreetly.
Reveals over the books a childhood in Arcachon, his wanderings in New York, his passions (Barthes, Casanova).
Last year, in
De sable et de neige
(Mercure de France), she offered images of herself, a little girl, a teenager, always sunny, smiling, with this blue gaze full of confidence in life.
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Like all Earthlings, she hated the confinements of 2020, the restrictions, the anguish of death.
These are the quick first twenty pages of his new account,
Swim Diary
.
This episode of our common history, where some have long poured out, even spread, she evacuates it in a few words: “
I am waiting for summer.
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Hold the dreams
She, whose taste for swimming we know, inherited from her mermaid mother, lives again in Nice and shares this rebirth with us.
Like the sand or the snow that she kneaded as a child to create shapes, the water that she embraces, that encircles her, is a perishable material.
Telling about the sea, neither quite the same nor everything…
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