Chloé Delaume

Le cœur synthétique

Synthetic Heart

August 20, 2020
Novel
208 pages
18 €
9782021425451
978-2-0214-2545-1
																Chloé Delaume, Le cœur synthétique
																Chloé Delaume, Le cœur synthétique

Adelaide has just broken up with her boyfriend, after years of living together. As she enters the market of love, she discovers with horror that being forty-six years old is a powerful factor of discount in the market of feelings. Obsessed with the idea of meeting a man and marrying him as soon as possible, she feels guilty for not managing her solitude as a true feminist should. Surrounded by her friends, who are themselves entangled in their existential crisis, she tries to tame her celibacy, while doing her best work in a large publishing house. In the second half of life, a single woman does what she can. The statistics swirl around in her head and do not speak in her favor: “There are more women than men, and they die first.”

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 20, 2020
Novel
208 pages
18 €
9782021425451
978-2-0214-2545-1