Aurélie Lacroix

L’unique objet de mon regard

August 23, 2023
Novel
176 pages
140 × 205 mm
18 €
9782366247992
978-2-3662-4799-2
																Aurélie Lacroix, L’unique objet de mon regard
																Aurélie Lacroix, L’unique objet de mon regard

“She would place her hand on my neck when we walked together, and I felt like I belonged to her. Like I had been yearning for this belonging my entire life. I gave her those pieces of myself without any resistance because she was everything I had ever expected love to be.”

E. and the narrator meet as they come of age. For both of them, it is their first love story. For fifteen years, they separate, reunite, and love each other intensely but always from a distance. Until the final breakup and the narrator’s collapse. From that point on, writing becomes necessary. To ensure that everything truly existed. To hold onto memories before they fade away. To move forward and keep sane.

Aurélie Lacroix revives the intimacy of this relationship, as powerful as it is chaotic, supported by loved ones who surround her, invoking the works of art that have always accompanied and comforted her. Between control and passion, she renews the imagination of a love rupture and brilliantly and sensitively proves that creation can literally save lives.

1st prix des Inrocks 2023 first novels category—1st Révélation d’automne selection
The author

Aurélie Lacroix was born in 1983 in Corrèze, France. She worked for a long time in Paris in the publishing industry, notably at Éditions de l’Olivier, before moving to Bordeaux where she has been living and working ever since. She has been collaborating with many venues in the field of live performance.

Aurélie Lacroix is particularly interested in how works of art from different disciplines influence, respond to and nourish each other. She is passionate about literature and contemporary art and is sensitive to the work of Joan Didion, Sophie Calle, Nathalie Léger and Édouard Levé. L’unique objet de mon regard is her first novel.

Strong points

A moving first novel that reconstructs in a kaleidoscopic way the passionate and chaotic relationship between two young women after the ultimate breakup.

A novel of love, break-up and reconstruction, in the tradition of Ça raconte Sarah by Pauline Delabroy Allard, or Dans la maison rêvée by Carmen Maria Machado.

A sensitive text, infused with the readings and works that have marked the author, like so many milestones and companions of survival, which proves how creation can literally save life.

August 23, 2023
Novel
176 pages
140 × 205 mm
18 €
9782366247992
978-2-3662-4799-2