The Imago Stage

One woman stands motionless at the windows of her suburban house with the weight of death in her belly; the other tries to cross the screen and turn herself into an image through her digital avatar, in search of the absolute. The first gave birth to the second, who now hopes to be reborn through a virtual body, far from the gloom of the family nest. The daughter, a woman-image, reconnects with her family just as her mother enters the terminal phase of a long degeneration. It is a story of bodies and disappearance, of reflections, composition and decomposition, of an image to be perfected beyond the disaster of the flesh.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

207 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Speculative (assigned by AI)

First published

2017 by Éditions Alto

Author's age

47 when first published

ISBN

9782896943494 (original)

9781552454022 (Coach House Books, Canada)