Chloé Delaume

Les sorcières de la République

Witches of the Republic

August 18, 2016
Novel
368 pages
20 €
9782021045611
978-2-0210-4561-1
																Chloé Delaume, Les sorcières de la République
																Chloé Delaume, Les sorcières de la République

A lot of bad things happened in France between 2017 and 2020, with the arrival in power of the Circle Party, an emanation of a feminist sect that wanted to compensate for a few thousand years of male domination. However, nothing remains of these three years: the collective amnesia was decided by a referendum. It is called the Great White. In 2062, at the Tribunal du Grand Paris, formerly the Stade de France, the founder of the Circle Party will finally be judged. Her name is the Sibyl. Prophetess by trade, advisor to the goddesses of Olympus, she will have to tell all.
Supporting evidence, the Sibyl lifts the veil on the history of women and on the relationships of domination.

In this novel with a twirling imagination, Chloé Delaume tells the future. Ours? Her humor is ferocious. You have to let yourself be carried away.

The author

Chloé Delaume was born in 1973. She has been writing in many forms and media since the late 1990s. She has written nearly thirty books as if they were experiments: novels, poetic fragments, plays, essays, self-fiction. She is fond of hybrid objects and the mixing of genres: a novel illustrated by a video game (Corpus Simsi), the hijacking of a board game (Certainement pas), fan fiction in which you are the hero (La nuit je suis Buffy Summers). But also diary of a home performance (J’habite dans la télévision), dystopia (Les sorcières de la République). If her first novel, Les mouflettes d’Atropos, was tinged with radical feminism, she later focused on the issue of sisterhood by publishing Mes bien chères sœurs and the collective work Sororité.
Winner of the Prix Décembre 2001 for Le cri du sablier, she was a resident at the Villa Médicis in 2010-2011 and won the Prix Médicis 2020 with Le cœur synthétique.

August 18, 2016
Novel
368 pages
20 €
9782021045611
978-2-0210-4561-1