Douro Editions "Through reading, we become absent from ourselves and our own lives." Alphonse Karr
Christina Mirjol
Christina Mirjol is the author of novels, short stories, and plays. Among her books published by Mercure de France, her first novel, Suzanne ou le récit de la honte, received the Thyde Monnier Prize, awarded by the SGDL in 2008, and her collection of short stories, Les petits gouffres, the Renaissance de la nouvelle prize in 2012. Her story, Les cris, published by Editions du Laquet in 1999, has been the subject of numerous productions, including the remarkable adaptation by Sylvie Mongin Algan for the NTH8 in Lyon in 2004. Her latest books, Les invitéses, 2018, and Un Homme, 2020, are both published by Éditions québécoises ÉLP. Since her first texts for the theater, a field in which Christina Mirjol has worked for more than twenty years, orality has been the heart of her writing.
The Cries, a new inventory, follows a first text that included ninety-nine numbered fragments. This new inventory adds to these a hundred new fragments, making a total of 199 "cries." These "cries" resemble those we can hear just a stone's throw from our house, in the street, in the heart of our home, or in the depths of our imagination: the butcher, the lumberjack, a cop, a judge, an ordinary neighbor, two collectors, the lost man... From one to the other, a whole procession of clamors parades, summarily embodied by tiny characters. Despite the brevity of their utterances, entire sections of life emerge in a few words, which a skillful character, called the writer, enjoys staging, like a tightrope walker. Imagining them on a theater stage, one thinks of an Ensor painting. Release Date: December 1, 2023 Order
