Chloé Delaume

Corpus Simsi

October 1, 2003
Novel
144 pages
170 × 230 mm
26 €
9782915280074
978-2-9152-8007-4
																Chloé Delaume, Corpus Simsi
																Chloé Delaume, Corpus Simsi

Corpus Simsi is a singular object, mixing poetic text and images created from the video game The Sims™. A novel that has integrated a particular technological tool during its realization, and is grafted on a precise virtual imaginary. Corpus Simsi is based on a playful variation on the notion of autofiction. Chloé Delaume, a fictional character worse than the others, refused to incarnate herself in a book. In a previous novel, La Vanité des Somnambules, she left the initial place of residence of her fellow creatures, Somnambulia, to take possession of a human body, which she hastened to parasitize. Having been expelled while pushing the hosting body to implosion, she finds herself nowhere, which is not very practical. So she decides to take up permanent residence in The Sims™ game, knowing that this new territory is particularly suited to her situation as a homeless fictional character. In the form of an avatar of her former human body, she becomes a small formatted video game character, subject to rules different from those of the real world, in front of which fiction is perhaps not as sovereign as it seems. Pre-programmed actions and fatum, bugs and clinamens, loops and ritornellos: so many similarities between the two universes, so many loopholes to fall through.

Leo Scheer
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.

October 1, 2003
Novel
144 pages
170 × 230 mm
26 €
9782915280074
978-2-9152-8007-4
Leo Scheer