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Chloé Delaume

Autor(a) de Le Coeur synthétique

25 Works 163 Membros 8 Reviews

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Obras de Chloé Delaume

Le Coeur synthétique (2020) 24 cópias
Le Cri du sablier (2001) 21 cópias
Not a Clue (2004) 15 cópias
Mes bien chères soeurs (2019) 15 cópias
Dans ma maison sous terre (2009) 9 cópias
Les Mouflettes d'Atropos (2000) 7 cópias
Pauvre folle 4 cópias
Pauvre folle (2023) 4 cópias
La vanite des somnambules (2002) 2 cópias
Où le sang nous appelle (2013) — Autor — 2 cópias

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Conhecimento Comum

Nome padrão
Chloé Delaume
Nome de batismo
Nathalie Dalain
Data de nascimento
1973-03-10
Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
France
País (para mapa)
France
Locais de residência
Paris, France
Ocupação
Writer

Membros

Resenhas

Extrait :
"Ainsi sont morts les amants d'encre, la volupté en strophes, le chaos à la rime ; du lever au coucher reliés par la chaîne d'or d'un amour impossible. Revenus des noyages et de tant d'incendies, sachant faire une croisière de la traversée du Styx, capables de respirer un poignard dans le coeur. A l'épreuve du réel, ils n'ont pas survécu. Peut-être parce qu'ils étaient amoureux d'un souvenir, ou du spectre d'un amour qui les rendait vivants. [...] Au fond, personne ne sait à quoi ça tient, l'amour."… (mais)
 
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biche1968 | Feb 3, 2024 |
Pauvre folle d’aimer, d’espoir et d’impossible. Folle et enfermée dans un déni passionnel.

Avec une écriture sublime (qui m’a réveillé d’anciens souvenirs de Kundera), Chloé Delaume dévoile les tourments de Clotilde, emportée dans les tourbillons d’un impossible amour.

C’est vertigineux, souvent drôle, subtile et écrasant.

Pauvre pauvre folle
 
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noid.ch | Oct 14, 2023 |
Il y a la rage, et à raison ! Un livre résolument féministe 4G (quatrième génération), qui appelle à l’union des femmes au travers de la sororité.

Un livre auquel je n’adhère pas inconditionnellement et auquel il ne m’est justement pas demandé d’adhérer car celui-ci ne s’adresse pas aux hommes. Doux rêveur, j’aurais préféré un projet incluant.

Reste un très bon livre militant, affirmé dans ses constats et revendications. Parfois drôle, souvent révolté avec un projet pour lequel Chloé Delaume appelle à continuer à se battre !… (mais)
 
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noid.ch | Nov 8, 2020 |
Translated from the original French, Not a Clue is a life size game of Clue involving six psychiatric patients. Each character takes on the persona of one of the Clue pieces, is placed in one of the rooms on the board, and has possession of one weapon. Each are accused of killing Dr. Black.

As a fan of the game Clue, I was thrilled for the chance to review a copy of Not a Clue, which is set to be released December 1, 2018. I was expecting something fun and a little bizarre since the suspects are psychiatric patients. However, what I got was a dizzying compilation of six characters with various psychiatric problems, an interfering author who repeatedly states she is unwilling to interfere, an omniscient narrator who doesn’t actually do a good job of it, and Dr. Black who apparently speaks to us from beyond death.

On one hand, I was a bit in awe of this book. It’s unique and pushes boundaries. Back in college, I read House of Leaves, an experimental horror book by Mark Z. Danielewski. I was intrigued and delighted by the experimental quality of the writing and layout, but honestly have very little recollection of what the heck it was about. I was equally delighted by the writing in Not a Clue. Even though it was a little difficult to get into with the incredible dearth of punctuation, I was nevertheless interested in how this book was written. Psychological definitions and explanations were woven throughout. Even though it made the book feel a little choppy, I still appreciated it as a former psychology student, especially since it made complete sense when it was injected. The character sketches were amusing and somewhat thought-provoking and sometimes it was difficult to tell what was real and what was fictional in each person’s life.

On the other hand, this book also grated on my nerves. As the story went along, I was a little dismayed when I reached the halfway point and had only met two of the suspects. They were both well-thought out and very well developed, which made me wonder if this book was maybe incomplete or if the remaining four suspects were only going to be glossed over. In the end, I was disappointed at the treatment the last four characters received, confused by the officers that were occasionally interjected, annoyed with the omniscient narrator who didn’t seem well-liked, and started to wonder if the author either ran out of steam while writing and that’s why only the first two suspects were well-developed or if the novel was meant to go that way. After finishing the book, I’m still not sure.

I was much more invested in the first half of the book and just wanted the second half to pass as quickly as possible. I very much enjoyed how the first two characters were fleshed out, but the pattern was the same for all six of them. It became tiring and repetitive and, by the last one, I had little interest in getting to know them, not that they were very well developed, anyways. But with all the changing characters and the annoying omniscient narrator, I just wanted the book to end.

The idea for the book was interesting and was what drew me to it. The game of Clue and six psychiatric patients? Yes and yes. I was expecting a wild and bizarre ride. What I got was mostly just bizarre. I appreciated what the author was trying to do and greatly enjoyed her boundary pushing, but I was quite tired of it by the end and am still left wondering how the game actually played into the story. I get that the suspects, rooms, and weapons were involved and the characters more or less correlated with the game’s characters, but the game in the story never felt anything more than flimsy and I probably would have enjoyed it without the overlay of the game.

In the end, I have my doubts as to whether or not Dr. Black was actually killed. Actually, I still have no idea who Dr. Black is/was and why he might have been killed. Then again, the why has never really been a part of the game. And I really didn’t care that he might have been killed. I also, in my disgruntled moments, think the author’s character is the one who was killed. Gee, if I were one of the six patients and had to make do with how my story was told, I might be willing to off her myself.

Not a Clue isn’t a terrible book. It was intriguing and definitely different. It’s well worth a look, but be prepared for a strange ride that may or may not leave you feeling fulfilled.

Thank you so much to NetGalley and the publisher for a copy of this book in exchange for a review.
… (mais)
 
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The_Lily_Cafe | Jun 28, 2020 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
25
Membros
163
Popularidade
#129,735
Avaliação
½ 3.4
Resenhas
8
ISBNs
33
Idiomas
1

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