“We never write from nowhere, we always carry with us a procession of ghosts. It is a populated solitude. There is the element of personal history, and the heritage of words and readings that nourish us and transform us.”
In Cécile A. Holdban, these specters are predominantly female.
Hence the idea for this book where she slipped into the skin and into the voice of around fifteen novelists and poets of the 20th century.
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Among them, well-known writers: Sylvia Plath, Ingeborg Bachman, the Russians Anna Akhmatova and Marina Tsvetaeva, Anne Sexton, the Argentine Alejandra Pizarnik, the Chilean Gabriela Mistral, Nobel laureate in 1945, Virginia Woolf.
Or lesser known ones such as the Swedish-speaking Finn Edith Södergran or Karin Boye.
Almost all of them suffered a tragic fate.
The author has chosen not to use any French writing, which we could have reread or discovered, we are thinking in particular of Danielle Collobert, of Catherine Pozzi, muse of Paul Valéry...
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