The novelist Bérengère Cournut publishes “Zizi Cabane”, a delicate novel, a dreamlike and polyphonic tale, which approaches the question of mourning and resilience with a child’s eye.
It is such a plural book that it becomes singular. A polyphonic book, which makes the voices, dreams and emotions of siblings heard after the disappearance of the mother, but which also stirs the feelings of the father, the aunt, or a “brand new grandpa”. A hybrid book, which mixes genres, the novel and the tale, the fable and the parable, moving from prose to verse, with epistolary passages.
It is from this double interbreeding that arises, from the depths of the earth and the rustle of the wind, a singular, shamanic and poetic little music, which recounts with delicacy and without the slightest pathos the mourning and the resilience at the height of a child, the one we were and still are a bit.
“Zizi Cabane”, the new novel by Berengere Cournut was published by Le Tripode editions.
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