Description :
After inventing the poetic investigative story in Disparue, Catherine Barsics pushes the boundaries of the genre even further in this new book. In a deceptively naïve tone, she depicts beach scenes in Italy, the light and bodies, the waves, the work of the UV, and creates an album full of snapshots that take us back to our own experiences of summer. This is poetry, of course, but poetry capable of humor and disappointment, poetry that tells us what we are, without ever looking at ourselves writing, even if each word is in its place and perfectly weighed. Somewhere between a behavioral study, a chronicle of ordinary monotony and the sketch of a philosophy of the grain of sand, Catherine Barsics takes us on a journey, but a double journey, since once the sea recedes and summer is far away, the cold, solitary season begins, that of the written word. That of the page.