Chloé Delaume

La dernière fille avant la guerre

The Last Girl Before the War

March 14, 2007

Novel

116 pages

145 × 185 mm

22 €

978-2-3502-1099-5

Chloé Delaume, La dernière fille avant la guerre

Winter 2005. Nicola Sirkis, leader of the band Indochine, contacted Chloé Delaume to ask her to write the lyrics of one or two songs of his album in preparation, Alice et June. In doing so, he ignores that his interlocutor has been a fan of the group since she was ten years old. Faced with the realization of his improbable fantasy, it goes without saying that disaster was bound to strike. The song for which she had written the lyrics was not kept, and she strongly felt like hanging herself, especially since the former tenant of her body did not take long to show up.

This book, whose soundtrack has been meticulously reconstructed on this site, deals with the relationship that fans have with their idols in general, and those of Indochine in particular.

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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.