2023 List of students

Comte Elise

Rideau

Texts and Creative Writing

2023

Rideau (Curtain) is the story of a revelation. One evening, the narrator finds the letter that her great-grandfather had sent to his daughter before he disappeared in the camp of Mauthausen. This is not a history lesson or testimonial. It’s a poetic snapshot, a record of the disappearance. In her everyday life, punctuated by school and the city, upset by each start of a new day, the narrator develops a body language and a related spoken language designed to break the cycle of her family body.

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