Chloé Delaume
Encyclopedia
Chloé Delaume is a French
award-winning novelist, performer, musician
, and occasional singer.
, 1973, Chloé Delaume spent her childhood in Beirut
. In 1983 a tragic episode both changed the course of her life and marked her body of work: at ten years old, she witnessed her father murder her mother, then kill himself. She then lived amongst her grandparents, her uncle and aunt.
Delaume enrolled at the Université de Paris X
to become a teacher, just like her mother did. Seemingly disappointed by the university's system, Delaume decided to write on her own while getting jobs as a waitress at hostess bars, which prompted her to write her first published novel for Farrago/Léo Scheer editions: Les Mouflettes d'Atropos. She then collaborated under her birth name on the literary magazine Le matricule des anges.
Chloé Delaume is her nom de plume: the name Chloé hails from the heroine of the novel L'Écume des jours
by Boris Vian
and her last name, Delaume, comes from Antonin Artaud
's writings/play L'Arve et l'Aume.
performance
s.
Le Cri du sablier, won the Prix Décembre
in 2001.
Autofiction
, technology
, biopower
, gameplay
, literary activism
and the struggle against psychosis
are some of the prevalent motifs throughout her body of work.
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
award-winning novelist, performer, musician
Musician
A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....
, and occasional singer.
Biography
Born Nathalie Dalain in ParisParis
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
, 1973, Chloé Delaume spent her childhood in Beirut
Beirut
Beirut is the capital and largest city of Lebanon, with a population ranging from 1 million to more than 2 million . Located on a peninsula at the midpoint of Lebanon's Mediterranean coastline, it serves as the country's largest and main seaport, and also forms the Beirut Metropolitan...
. In 1983 a tragic episode both changed the course of her life and marked her body of work: at ten years old, she witnessed her father murder her mother, then kill himself. She then lived amongst her grandparents, her uncle and aunt.
Delaume enrolled at the Université de Paris X
University of Paris X: Nanterre
Paris West University Nanterre La Défense formerly called Paris X Nanterre is a French university in the Academy of Versailles. It is one of the 13 successor universities of the University of Paris. It is located in the western suburb of Nanterre, near La Défense, the business district of Paris...
to become a teacher, just like her mother did. Seemingly disappointed by the university's system, Delaume decided to write on her own while getting jobs as a waitress at hostess bars, which prompted her to write her first published novel for Farrago/Léo Scheer editions: Les Mouflettes d'Atropos. She then collaborated under her birth name on the literary magazine Le matricule des anges.
Chloé Delaume is her nom de plume: the name Chloé hails from the heroine of the novel L'Écume des jours
Froth on the daydream
Froth on the daydream is a novel written by French author Boris Vian, and published in 1947.It has been translated several times into English, under different titles...
by Boris Vian
Boris Vian
Boris Vian was a French polymath: writer, poet, musician, singer, translator, critic, actor, inventor and engineer. He is best remembered today for his novels. Those published under the pseudonym Vernon Sullivan were bizarre parodies of criminal fiction, highly controversial at the time of their...
and her last name, Delaume, comes from Antonin Artaud
Antonin Artaud
Antoine Marie Joseph Artaud, more well-known as Antonin Artaud was a French playwright, poet, actor and theatre director...
's writings/play L'Arve et l'Aume.
Life and writing
Chloé Delaume has written various novels in which she uses an original form of poetic research. Apart from writing novels, she composes and collaborates lyrics to Julien Locquet's musical project Dorine Muraille. These collaborations have also spurred multimediaMultimedia
Multimedia is media and content that uses a combination of different content forms. The term can be used as a noun or as an adjective describing a medium as having multiple content forms. The term is used in contrast to media which use only rudimentary computer display such as text-only, or...
performance
Performance
A performance, in performing arts, generally comprises an event in which a performer or group of performers behave in a particular way for another group of people, the audience. Choral music and ballet are examples. Usually the performers participate in rehearsals beforehand. Afterwards audience...
s.
Le Cri du sablier, won the Prix Décembre
Prix Décembre
The Prix Décembre, originally known as the Prix Novembre, is one of France's premier literary awards. Its winners are generally far more radical choices than the more staid and conservative Prix Goncourt...
in 2001.
Autofiction
Autofiction
Autofiction is a term used in literary criticism to refer to a form of fictionalized autobiography.Serge Doubrovsky coined the term in 1977 with reference to his novel Fils. Autofiction combines two paradoxically contradictory styles: that of autobiography, and fiction...
, technology
Technology
Technology is the making, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization in order to solve a problem or perform a specific function. It can also refer to the collection of such tools, machinery, and procedures. The word technology comes ;...
, biopower
Biopower
Biopower was a term coined by French Social theorist and philosopher Michel Foucault it refers to the practice of modern states and their regulation of their subjects through "an explosion of numerous and diverse techniques for achieving the subjugations of bodies and the control of populations." ...
, gameplay
Gameplay
Gameplay is the specific way in which players interact with a game, and in particular with video games. Gameplay is the pattern defined through the game rules, connection between player and the game, challenges and overcoming them, plot and player's connection with it...
, literary activism
Literary activism
Literary activism is a form of protest and critique aimed at corporate publishing houses and the literary fiction/nonfiction which they publish. The progenitors of literary activism are the members of the Underground Literary Alliance...
and the struggle against psychosis
Psychosis
Psychosis means abnormal condition of the mind, and is a generic psychiatric term for a mental state often described as involving a "loss of contact with reality"...
are some of the prevalent motifs throughout her body of work.
Works
- Les Mouflettes d’Atropos, Éditions Farrago, 2000
- Mes week-ends sont pires que les vôtres, Éditions du Néant, 2001
- Le Cri du sablier, Éditions farrago/Léo Scheer, 2001
- La Vanité des Somnambules, Éditions Farrago/Léo Scheer, 2003
- Monologue pour épluchures d’Atrides, Éditions du C.I.P.M., 2003
- Corpus Simsi, Éditions Léo Scheer, 2003
- Certainement pas, Éditions Verticales, 2004
- Les Juins ont tous la même peau, Éditions La Chasse au Snark, 2005
- J'habite dans la télévision, Éditions Verticales, 2006
- Neuf leçons de littérature, 2007
- Chanson de geste & Opinions, Éditions Mac/Val, 2007
- La Dernière Fille avant la guerre, Éditions Naïve Sessions, 2007
- La nuit je suis Buffy SummersBuffy SummersBuffy Summers is a fictional character from Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer franchise. She first appeared in the 1992 film Buffy the Vampire Slayer before going on to appear in the television series and subsequent comic book of the same name...
, Éditions è®e, 2007 - Transhumances, Éditions è®e, 2007
- Dans ma maison sous terre, Seuil (Fiction & cie collection), 2008
- Eden matin midi et soir, Joca Seria, 2009
- Narcisse et ses aiguilles, L'une et l'autre, 2009
- Au commencement était l'adverbe, 2010
- La règle du je, PUF, 2010
- Sillages, Cadex, 2010
- Le Deuil des deux syllabes, L'une et l'autre, 2011