Fanny Chiarello & Wendy Delorme

L’évaporée

Evaporated

August 17, 2022

Novel

184 pages

140 × 205 mm

18 €

978-2-3662-4696-4

What makes someone suddenly abandon the woman to whom she has just said “What wonderful moments I have spent with you, even today: I want this every day of my life?” This is the question that Jenny is faced to after Eve’s departure. Both of them will learn that “you can live the same story at the same time in two completely different ways”.

Alternating between the two women’s points of view, Fanny Chiarello and Wendy Delorme question, in a sensitive and embodied way, the possibility of a lasting relationship, the compatibility of lifestyles which seem opposed at first glance, and the need to confront the ghosts of the past in order to make the present possible. In counterpoint, they also offer a subtle reflection on the powers and limits of literary creation.

the authors

Fanny Chiarello writes novels, poetry, and children’s literature. She enjoys changing universes, forms, and tonalities in each new text. To fuel her work, she explores cities and countryside, running or cycling, with her camera. In her spare time, she compiles a directory of underground female sound artists from around the world. She has published numerous novels with éditions de l’Olivier and, with éditions Cambourakis, L’évaporée with Wendy Delorme and Spécimens sensibles in the “récits d’objets” collection.

Writer, performer, Wendy Delorme has published Fourth Generation (novel, Grasset, 2007), the collection Insurrection! En territoire sexuel (Au Diable Vauvert, 2009), La Mère, la Sainte et la Putain (novel, Au Diable Vauvert, 2012), Le corps est une chimère (novel, Au Diable Vauvert, Prix Joseph 2018). Since 2011, she has been organizing the reading events “Il faut qu’on parle” with the writer Isabelle Sorente, a member of the autriX RER Q collective, she is also a university teacher-researcher.

Strong points

After the success of Viendra le temps du feu, more than 12,000 copies sold, a new novel by Wendy Delorme, written four hands with Fanny Chiarello.

The story of a breakup in a couple of women, subtly approached from the alternate point of view of the two protagonists, thus putting in relation the incomprehension of the one who is left without reason and the necessary need for distance of the other.

A perfectly constructed novel, which offers a reflection on creation, and on the powers and limits of the literary territory as much as on the conciliation of different life choices and the status of female creators.