REVIEW – this short book, sort of “time log”contemplative and retrospective.
A woman sits in front of a mirror. She tilts her head. Should she wash her hair? Put on your glasses? She twists on her cushion. What position should we take? The experience that Ruth Ozeki offers us is simple: observe her face in a mirror for three hours. The idea may seem preposterous.
This is not a question of the coquetry of an author in need of inspiration, but of reproducing a variant of an exercise that a Yale professor proposed to his students: going to a museum and spending three hours in front of it. an artwork. Why so much time? This, so that the spectator is no longer satisfied with “look at art, but see it”.
Read alsoFloating Bodies, by Mikaël Hirsch: in the labyrinth of time
What will this attention provoke in the author? That’s the whole point of this short book, a sort of “time log”, contemplative and retrospective. The minutes pass, the 59-year-old woman first observes his features. She notices the first signs of age. Her scar that she hides under her bangs, her heavy eyelids and her sideburns…
This article is reserved for subscribers. You have 55% left to discover.
Do you want to read more?
Unlock all items immediately.
Already subscribed? Log in
