Corinne Morel-DarleuxLa sauvagière

She remembers the accident as if in a dream, the impact on the asphalt. When she regains consciousness, she is far from the constant hustle and bustle of the city, in the shelter of a forest house nestled in the heart of the mountains. Next to her are Jeanne, Stella and the deep forest. There is little talk here. But everything seems to rustle, to move and pulsate with a strange and magnetic force. Her two companions and the surrounding nature sometimes merge, as if to better initiate her to another way of being, instinctive and animal. To go away, finally…

La Sauvagière is a dreamlike fable that invites us to rethink the link that unites us to the world, far from modern constructions and contingencies. Page after page, in this first novel, Corinne Morel Darleux plunges us into a powerfully poetic universe where the senses become the masters and where our humanity metamorphoses in contact with the damp wood and under the caresses of the wind.