Agnès de Clairville's warnings at the beginning of her texts are worth the detour and say something profound.
In her first title,
La Poupée qui fait oui
, noticed when it was published in 2022, she wrote this:
“If certain situations, institutions, people described in these pages, all fictitious, seem real, it is undoubtedly because the similarities with reality are inevitable.
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In her new novel,
Farmhouse
, which opens with “
the chorus of piglets
” and where the narrators are animals, she writes that
“any resemblance to animals that existed was particularly difficult to produce”
.
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We want to believe her, because her book is one of those crazy projects that we imagine and never manage to realize - the examples in the history of literature fit on the fingers of one hand.
She took up the challenge and succeeded brilliantly in her own humble and determined way, with this original, powerful and instructive text.
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