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“With Monique Thomassettie, no one knows where he is sailing, on which skiff, or for which destination. One has only to let oneself be carried away on moving waves, unpredictable, never conventional. Lovers of marked cruises, you will not find here your holidays all in […]“T-li-mi-a-slo”, the last syllables pronounced by her mother before dying during childbirth, according to his habit of inventing tunes and snatches of words to punctuate her housework, became the second name of Lyra; in front of the birthplace, a stump transformed in table continues to bloom, becomes a work of art and replaces the house itself; Tlimiaslo, now a poet, meditates there on the sources of her art... Impossible to tell these texts, impossible even to catalog them. Short stories? Stages of poetic meditations? We meet the little Claire at the station the great Belgian artist Paul Delvaux liked to paint […], a woman missing her appointment at the Mons Love Film Festival (short novel published by the festival), a woman writer a bit paranoid, an artist that non-recognition confronts with madness, the reflections of a young woman on "The origin of the world" by Gutave Courbet, a tourist guide leaving her commentary wandering, a student writing a thesis "From Javert to Maigret" and discussing with God in dream… All springboards to make us leap into the essence of art. […] Every detail, concrete or abstract, is here indispensable, we must ceaselessly slip from a narrative to an intuition, from an intuition to a thought, from a thought to a spiritual perception, with a rigor in the sequence that we only discover afterwards, when we leave the book and start dreaming about it to better come back to it.” Gilpro, critiqueslibres.com)

http://www.meo-edition.eu/tlimiaslo.html

Author Biography

Writer and painter, Monique Thomassettie wrote more than seventy books (poetry, tales and novels, short stories, theater), in which she "vivifies myths and symbols by varying them, by moving them". Some of his texts have been translated into english (Belgian Woman Poets), bosnian (Hrvatska misao, Život) and croatian (Europski Glasnik). She was invited in 2004 to “Sarajevski dani poezije”.

« Her poetry is unusual in several ways: in its imaginary, its pictorial qualities, as wel as in its deep sense of the sacred. Humorous touches are present as wel… » Renée Linkhorn and Judy Cochran, Belgian Woman Poets, An Anthology, Peter Lang, New York, 2000.

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