La Minotaure

A narrator who is terrified by the very idea of living looks back on her childhood through a series of notes, trying to understand the source of her fears. Most of these short texts are addressed to Maude, a friend who has died. This one-sided dialogue lets her draw links between her childhood and her adult life, and between life and the death she believes is stalking her because of her urge to exist. It is the story of a voice that dares to assert itself against a knot of patriarchal, white, imperial, gender and class violence that smothers and erases her.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

170 pages in the original

Genres

Autofiction, Coming of age (assigned by AI)

First published

2019 by Triptyque

ISBN

9782898010118 (original)