Exquises petites morts
by Schraûwen, Liliane
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Love... We seek it, we pursue it, we make it and undo it, we enjoy it, we suffer for it. We sing it, write it, paint it, play it and pretend it... We die for it, or we kill. But what does this word cover? We love God (sometimes), our homeland (rarely), our parents, our children. We love to laugh and sing, we love sports, movies, and even chocolate or good wine. We love our dreams, we love to love. We love, also and above all, this half of orange that we have been told over and over again that it exists, that it is there, somewhere, waiting for us, and that it will meet all our desires, all our needs.
The same term to designate so many things: possession, enjoyment, domination, jealousy, voluptuousness, tenderness, sacrifice... Eros and agape have always played hide and seek to better deceive us. Sometimes they deceive themselves and everything goes wrong. The bus swerves, disappointment devours us, the sleeping beauty forgets to wake up, lightning strikes for good...
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“In this short stories, Schraûwen focuses on the description of bodies, precisely, and their touching contact which is overwhelming, nothing having changed since Racine: A disturbance arose in my distraught soul; My eyes could no longer see, I could no longer speak; I felt my whole body and sweating and burning. But she also injects into her texts a deeper dimension, with humor and cruelty, through scenarios and harsher reflections concerning old age, fragility, inanity, despair, dissatisfaction, modern world, and Death. Eros and Thanatos, more than ever linked. (Samia Hammami, Le Carnet et les Instants)
“Death is always there, which lurks, or which punctuates, or which concludes. I love you, I kill you. […] In fact, Liliane Schraûwen leads everyone's desires to the end of their logic. It leads to love at first sight, intense physical love, sure. But lightning can also strike for good, and little death can lose its qualifier.” (Jean-Claude Vantroyen, Le Soir.)
Author Biography
After an African childhood, Liliane Schraûwen studied literature which led her to teaching and writing. She is the author of several novels and collections of short stories published in France and Belgium, as well as of a historical investigation into the mysterious death of Pope John Paul I and of several works devoted to the Great Criminal Cases of Belgium, which have met with clear success. She was also a collection director for Editions Marabout. Negro and occasional rewriter, she deals with literary coaching.
She received the Literary Prize of the Parliament, the Emma Martin Prize, and was a finalist for the Rossel Prize (the most important Belgian literary prize).
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- Publisher M.E.O.
- Publication Date May 2020
- ISBN/Identifier 9782807002395
- Publication Country or regionBelgium
- FormatBook
- Primary Price 15 EUR
- Pages148
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Copyright Year2020
- Dimensions210 x 148 mm
- IllustrationNone
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