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Calypso
Anne Luthaud

In Homer’s Odyssey, the nymph Calypso disappears from the tale after she is obliged to let Ulysses go. It is at that precise moment that Anne Luthaud’s novel opens. Calypso too, leaves her home, her village, her life – what’s the point of staying if Ulysses is gone? So begins a long journey, the restless wandering of someone who now refuses to become attached to anyone or anything, including to places that can both reassure and pen in. She walks, crossing vast expanses, overcome by images and remembering her life with Ulysses. Her past life with that man, who needed always to be loved and held captive, overlaps with the present, made of freedom and oblivion.

The images of Calypso are the counterpoint to those of the other main character, Simon, a young man who lives surrounded by screens. He hardly ever leaves his room to venture through Paris, which seems quite dull compared to the multiple possibilities offered by the digital world. He meets both virtual and real people, following – even trailing – people, movements and life, here and there, through Paris and elsewhere.

Calypso and Simon’s paths eventually blend into one, the real images of one winding up on the screens of the other. Without realizing it, they meet in the course of their respective odysseys… and may even touch in real life, who knows?

Anne Luthaud has written a lovely fable about our world, which is drowning in images – the ones we gather and the ones we’re searching for, as well as the ones we’re subjected to at every moment.

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  • Littérature française
  • Publication date : 04/01/2018
  • Size : 14 x 18 cm, 160 p., 13,00 EUR €
  • ISBN 978-2-283-03059-2
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