Sophie Létourneau

Chasse à l’homme

Manhunt

March 5, 2020
Narrative
216 pages
128 × 190 mm
18 €
9782924898550
978-2-9248-9855-0
																Sophie Létourneau, Chasse à l’homme
																Sophie Létourneau, Chasse à l’homme

The real is a game that charges rather than being captured.

There was the idea that with the next lover would come the next book. Driven by a game of performative writing and provocation of reality, Sophie Létourneau embarks on the path of a love harpoon based on instructions given to her by a fortune teller. Mixing her steps with those of Sophie Calle, in the march towards a voluntary sublimation of life that will take her as far as Tokyo via Paris, she discovers the features of the man of her life and seeks to prove the enchanting power of literature. An investigation into love and the future, Manhunt is a seriously magical tale that embraces girls, their desire to be loved and to become, if not a great man, a writer.
Heir to Sophie Calle and Roland Barthes, Sophie Létourneau creates a clever performance story.

The author

Sophie Létourneau is a writer and professor of literature at Laval University in Quebec City. She is interested in the writings of reality. She has published Polaroïds, Chanson française and L’été 95. Chasse à l’homme is her first book to be published by La Peuplade.

March 5, 2020
Narrative
216 pages
128 × 190 mm
18 €
9782924898550
978-2-9248-9855-0