“Since their thing was perfected, that’s all we talk about. T3M, an artificial intelligence capable of spatializing memory.” In her new book, Héloïse Brézillon, imagines a powerful device, which scans the human brain, identifies the capitals of pain, maps memories, the dross of past sensations, odors, the holes left by violence into which we can fall very strong and very bad, even years later. The book advances in fragments on the terrain of a traumatic experience, so many flashes allowing us to understand the functioning of galaxies of violence and to escape from them.
Getting rid of traumatic memory
Héloïse Brézillon explains: “With this book, I tried to understand how violence works, what it does to the body, and particularly to the brain. I had the impression of emerging from blindness, of realize that I had been blinded for years by traumas which, in reality, have a very strong impact on our way of being and our way of living on a daily basis.”
By questioning the layers of memory, Héloïse Brézillon does not take her eyes off the literary question: “Literature is made of standardized forms and the fact of moving them, playing with them, hybridizing them, of seeing how a genre can, with “others, becoming something else and creating new languages, this also allows us to find new ways of naming reality.”
Fiction / Black Saturday Listen later
Lecture listen
The listener’s question
Emma has read Héloïse Brézillon’s novel, and asks her if she wrote this book to relieve herself of a weight or so that her words heal her readers thanks to the positive impact of her writing.
The great game of musical pages
Today the music can be found in Anne Pauly’s book, Before I forgetpublished by Verdier in 2020. It is the song “Eloise” by Barry Ryan.
Archive
– Virginia Woolf on semantic work, BBC on 04/29/1937
Musical references
– Zaho de Sagazan, The Symphony of Lightning
– Pulp, Refuse to be blind
– Silvester, Donato Wharton
– Arise, Mining
– Loscil, Ochre
– Barry Ryan, Eloise
