The Imago Stage
by Karoline Georges trans. Rhonda Mullins
Description
In this ominous, numbed-out tale, our heroine spends her 1980’s childhood staring at the television to escape the terrors of her suburban home. After winning a modeling competition – she has the blankest stare – she moves to Paris and dedicates herself becoming a placid image onto which anything can be projected. Earning enough as a model to retire in her twenties, she retreats from the world, cultivating her existence through her virtual reality avatar. But then her mother gets sick and she is forced to leave her cocoon without the mask of her perfect, digital self.
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Reviews
‘A thought-provoking meditation on our relationships with images and digital life.’ – Kirkus Reviews
‘An exhilarating and prescient ride through a woman’s lifelong drive toward disembodiment.’ – Publishers Weekly
Author Biography
After studying film and art history, Karoline Georges began a multidisciplinary artistic approach where video, audio art, photography, literature, and 3D modeling coexisted. She is the author of seven books, including Under the Stone (finalist for the 2012 Quebec Booksellers' Prize). In 2012, she received the Artistic Creation Award from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec. Her latest novel, The Imago Stage, has won several honors in French, including the Governor General's Literary Award in 2018. Karoline currently lives in Montreal.
Rhonda Mullins is a writer and translator. She received the 2015 Governor General's Literary Award for Twenty-One Cardinals, her translation of Jocelyne Saucier's Les héritiers de la mine. And the Birds Rained Down, her translation of Jocelyne Saucier’s Il pleuvait des oiseaux, was a CBC Canada Reads Selection. It was also shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award, as were her translations of Élise Turcotte’s Guyana and Hervé Fischer’s The Decline of the Hollywood Empire. Rhonda currently lives in Montréal.
Bibliographic Information
- Publisher Coach House Books
- Publication Date July 2020
- Orginal LanguageFrench
- ISBN/Identifier 9781552454022
- Publication Country or regionCanada
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 22.95 CAD
- Pages168
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Dimensions8.25 x 5.25 inches
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