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Coco Bernard Taboada
Coco Bernard Taboada was born in Paris in the last century. After studying modern literature and film history, she wrote cultural articles for the daily press and magazines. In 2007, she packed her bags to live for many years in Barcelona, then Madrid. In the sunshine, she worked as a translator while continuing to write for French-language magazines. She recently moved to the Paris region, where she divides her time between writing and proofreading manuscripts for publishers.
Crossing the Mirrors is the result of a project of automatic writing, cut-ups, and other exquisite corpses inspired by images, paintings, photographs, and music, but also by cinema, which the author adores. This collection is also a kind of homage to Orpheus, the film by Jean Cocteau, whose key scene, Jean Marais-Orpheus crossing a liquid mirror to join his Eurydice, is the Ariadne's thread of each text. It is about diving into the other side of the scenery, letting yourself be carried away, quite simply, as we do in a dream. It is also recommended that the reader read each text aloud to bring out the melody and some kaleidoscopic games...
