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Darrieussecq (no login)
Posted Feb 18, 2008 10:01 AM
What a passionate reading ! You quote the "worst" part I think (the orgy, the chandelier girl...). At that point of the novel, the character got used to what she sees, nothing surprises her anymore (if something has ever really surprised her).
Beauty, yes, I found some beauty in that world : I loved to describe the ruins of Paris (one of my favorite films is Chris Marker's La jetée, where you can see black and white pictures of Paris after a nuclear disaster), I loved to write the scenes of lycantrophy (werewolf transformation)- Yvan is a really beautiful male... I loved to "eat" chestnuts with her, and I just cherish her, sentimentally, as a character that exists without me anymore. She changed my life, after all...
The tone of her voice made it : that little "song" of her, like a humming I had in my mind while I was writing : almost like a nursery rhyme, and on that musical line I could write everything including terrible things - a terrible world. It was distanced by the irony of the contrast : her naive voice, and the things she said.
What's ironic too on that forum is those adds you may get too, on your side of the Internet ocean, of those gorgeous Russian girls that are not sold here to get married, I'm afraid !
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