Berlin Fellowship 2024 — Literature
Vita
Éléonore de Duve published “Donato” in 2023 (Corti Verlag), a novel in which she follows an Italian boy living in the South of the country who became a coal miner in Belgium in 1946. De Duve wrote the text Sophia, which will be released in 2025 (Corti Verlag).
Residency
During my residency, I intend to continue writing a text that has accompanied me for quite a long time. In this text, a novel, a young woman has lost her grip on reality; she is wandering, hanged under the sky. Her name is Marguerite. She is a lawyer. She no longer feels emotions, at least not while she is busy working. Her desk is icy, and her memories are scattered. If she closes her eyes, nothing stands out.
The clouds are melting away. The world of Marguerite seems to be legal-cold, organised in papers, and desingularized. Adam: is a file; little Alice: ditto; Monsieur's ex-wife, the employee, the consumer, etc., all files. Marguerite’s face will fade away, ransacked by strangers.