Camille de Toledo's 'Vies potentielles' weaves parallel lives
Camille de Toledo's book 'Vies potentielles' (Potential Lives) references Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives' through a triple system of parallel existences: symbolic fictions, poetic geneses, and exegeses that comment on their own writing. The work emerged from paternal grief, creating a complex literary device with communicating vessels between three distinct voices and styles, from quasi-letterism to lyricism. The title's Nordic 'ø' emphasizes the potentiality of each life existing within another. The book blurs biography and fiction, making it a novel. Donatien Grau reviewed the work for artpress in 2011.
Key facts
- Camille de Toledo is the author of 'Vies potentielles'.
- The title references Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives'.
- The book has a triple system: symbolic fictions, poetic geneses, and exegeses.
- The work originated from paternal grief.
- It uses three distinct voices and styles.
- The 'ø' in 'potentielles' is a Nordic spelling.
- Donatien Grau wrote the review.
- The review was published in artpress in 2011.
Entities
Artists
- Camille de Toledo
- Donatien Grau
Institutions
- artpress
Sources
- artpress —