Chloé Saffy – “Vocation”

In 2018, it is almost by chance (or, let’s face it, a competition of circumstances) that we mentioned in these columns Soaring Bluethe second novel by Chloé Saffy. Nevertheless, Since then. Meanwhile, we have chronicked its following works with growing interest, On the edge of flesh (2021) et The rule of three (2023), gradually becoming attentive witnesses to an expanding, coherent, stimulating and willingly destabilizing work. In addition, His new opus, The vocationstands out for a notable double evolution. Meanwhile, It is the subject of a change of register (self -fiction). Meanwhile, categorization (it is relieved of the reductive label of “erotic novel”). Moreover, Published by the seeking Midi, the book comes out during the dense school year in literary. For example, As limpid as devious, he undoubtedly has assets to get out of the game.

Chloé chloé saffy – “vocation” is the author of erotic novels and passionate about BDSM culture. Consequently, This is the reason why a young woman, Salomé, contacted her one day on Facebook. In addition, She wishes, she says, discuss what she has lived for seven years. In addition, The story of a woman who has become the property of a couple of big bourgeois. Additionally, In addition, going so far as to offer them the arrangement of her body, metamorphosable at thank you. In addition, True story or ramblings of a fabricator? Consequently, Chloe conducts the investigation. Moreover, But, gradually, the ever more raw and shocking confidences of Salomé make him lose ground …

Two quotes of figures today controversial (Roman Polanski, Gerard Brach, Bret Easton Ellis), precede and supervise reading before Chloé Saffy does not start his story in the first person, by summoning an identifiable close past. Meanwhile, The chloé saffy – “vocation” vocation opens in the summer of 2020, between two confinements, in the midst of a health crisis. Therefore, The simple and intelligible situation is synthesized with surgical rigor combining precision and immediacy. Nevertheless, The writer first speaks of her in an approach aimed at presenting her position. However, or rather explaining and clarifying her upcoming positioning. In addition, From her daily life (recent move. professional break, new routine) to the origins of her interests, she also cites some of her decisive, cinematographic references (Gall moon, Basic Instinct, Showgirls) or literary (Régine Deforges, Pauline Réage, Manara). She tells herself before introducing the one who imposed herself on her, Salomé: “Nothing hears when you meet her heroine. ».

The initial “I” soon hosts a second account in the third person and thus the establishment of a double point of view. From then on. the author wonders about chloé saffy – “vocation” the history of her protagonist, while trying to relate it and appropriate it without betraying or distorting it. The emerging disorder is the growing amazement in the face of the revelations of Salomé/Sistine. but also to the perspective (or question) of these. Do we doubt the veracity of what is told or is it the writer who makes us doubt? The fiction comes to interfere in reality thanks to digressions (like the beginning of The secretary). The elliptical fluidity of the correspondence between Chloe and her heroine is interspersed with parentheses. They nourish and question the universe depicts as much as the psychology of the subject.

The vocation Discreetly matt into a partially hybrid object that gives a novel simultaneously and behind the scenes of its writing. A double path is observed: that of the writer and that of the heroine. The first immerses us chloé saffy – “vocation” at the heart of a part of its creative process. in which the supposedly authentic story of the second dictates the nature of the emerging work. In this approach. there is an obvious teasing art, a desire to maintain the reader’s attention alert but also to leave him necessary breathing. This implicit desire for gradual appetizer also fulfills another function. She prepares the spirits for increasingly disturbing. unbearable revelations, while contextualizing them, reflecting and – if not judging or approving them – seeking to understand them.

Nothing free in this trying odyssey where each word seems weighed and soupée in search of a literary identity able to support an “extraordinary” story whose specificities are never simple details. The meticulous rigor with which Chloé Saffy exposes the situation. takes it is imprinted with sweetness and empathy towards a woman gradually deprived of everything. She does not chloé saffy – “vocation” fail to share her disarray. her helplessness, she is above all transparent about her growing emotional involvement. This mixture of proximity. distance testifies to a great altruism when transcribing the story of a dehumanization which seems without return. This is how the perspectives are reversed and gradually multiply. The writer fights so as not to become the object of her subject. Sixtine. formidable romantic engine indirectly pushes it to a naked stake which expands the work being written, in addition to offering the possibility of new lighting to its previous works. Chloé Saffy turns out to be in personal notes. considerations, often accessible always learned and sometimes imbued with a touch of humor (like the ruthless projections towards Just Jaeckin). In this sense. The vocation is as much the account of an “emancipation” in extreme submission as that of the emancipation of an author who stands out from the forms chloé saffy – “vocation” which could be imposed on him, until they question the morality of her literary enterprise.

In the end, the veracity of Sistine’s journey and the shadow areas that remain, import less than the questions raised. In his passionate and obsessed investigation, Chloé Saffy feeds her novel with stories and anecdotes opposing us out of standards. It is also in the light of these realities that we ignore. ignore that it opens the field of possibilities of its reader to initiate it to extreme but real and manifestly consented experiences. Until the last movements, a latent suspense remains, which is this sixtine? Will it go from virtual to reality? Are we going to attend a reversal of the situation or a revelation? We will have the outcome. Reading ends with a strange feeling. that of being completely struck, fascinated and disturbed, after being brutally drawn from our comfort zone. chloé saffy – “vocation” However, a question is necessary at the end of the last page. Who is the title for? Was it Chloé’s vocation to write on Sixtine and print her story on hundreds of pages? Or was it Sistine’s vocation to become the heroine of a novel? Probably a bit of both. The vocation tells the story of a woman objectified until animalization, which becomes subject by the gaze of a writer. It is at the cost of this lasting disorder that a soft and poorly friendly work is appreciated.

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