Solange, Serge, or Zazie are characters from a novel. When he once asked Zazie de Paris, a comet of Parisian and Berlin nights, a flamboyant, multifaceted transgender artist who had crossed paths with Maurice Béjart, Werner Schroeter, Isabelle Huppert, and Quentin Tarantino on her Walk of Fame, before becoming that recurring and reassuring presence in the familiar, Germanic Sunday evening television, if she would agree to have a novel recount her life, she replied to the young author in front of her: "Yes, but with a style like Ingrid Caven." Digressions, collage, and montage will guide the author, who is determined to write the tale of a larger-than-life character who has entrusted him with the reins of her life story. Moving from one life to another, from flashback to flashforward, from Serge to this self-created fusion of Zsa Zsa Gabor, Zizi Jeanmaire, and Raymond Queneau's little heroine, from Zazie to Solange, the heroine's memories drift from city to city, from Jerusalem in the late 1940s to Montreuil, the red-light district, from Tokyo's opium dens to Berlin's Schiller Theater, which propelled her to become Peter Zadek's muse, by way of Parisian drag cabarets in the 1960s and the early nightclubs of Mykonos where she entertained Princess Soraya. How can one recount a life like a novel, an existence so much more fictional than reality? By constructing it, with the consent of the woman who lives it, in the gaps of the narrative, in what lies beyond the frame, in the refusals and absences of memory, by trusting in the power of imagination and literature to reach, as closely and accurately as possible, a truth. Publication date: July 1, 2025 Order Press release