After The synthetic heart (Seuil, Prix Médicis 2020), Chloé Delaume returns to humor and self-deprecation in Poor fool, a novel imbued with a strong autobiographical dimension. During a train trip to Germany, Clotilde Mélisse, a writer who “is used to transforming her existential episodes and cycles into books”, mulls over an intense love story, especially epistolary, lived ten years ago. years for several years with a homosexual couple who returned today to upset his fragile balance. “Is radical feminism compatible with a heterosexual love affair? » Before answering it (or not), she tells us about her life: the discovery of poetry in her mother’s library, her father who murdered her mother in front of her before turning the gun against himself (cornerstone of his “founding memories”), the practice of prostitution, mental illness, his obsessions and his too often unhappy love stories. A leaping and tragicomic introspection.
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