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 (Suzanne or the Tale of Shame), received the Thyde Monnier Prize, awarded by the SGDL (French Society of Authors) in 2008, and her short story collection, Les petits gouffres (The Little Abysses), won the Renaissance Short Story Prize in 2012. Her narrative, Les cris (The Cries), published by Editions du Laquet in 1999, has been adapted for the stage numerous times, including the remarkable adaptation by Sylvie Mongin Algan for the NTH8 in Lyon in 2004. Her most recent books, Les invités (The Guests), 2018, and Un Homme (A Man), 2020, are both published by the Quebec publisher ÉLP. Since her first plays, in which Christina Mirjol has worked for over twenty years, orality has been the driving force of her writing.
The Cries, a new inventory, follows an initial text comprising ninety-nine numbered fragments. This new inventory adds approximately one hundred new fragments, for a total of 199 "cries." These "cries" resemble those we might hear just a stone's throw from our homes, in the street, in the heart of our own homes, or in the depths of our imagination: the butcher, the lumberjack, a cop, a judge, an unremarkable neighbor, two collectors, the lost man… From one to the next, a whole procession of clamor unfolds, summarily embodied by tiny characters. Despite the brevity of their utterances, entire swathes of life emerge in a few words, which a skillful character, called the writer, delights in staging, like a tightrope walker. Imagining them on a theater stage, one thinks of an Ensor painting. Publication date: December 1, 2023 Order
