Eden Levin “A kind of stress relief”

2023-08-28 13:59:36

At just 25 years old, Eden Levin is the author of Jeudi, the story of a politico-absurd confrontation between revolutionary theater collectives.

Photo caption: FEET AND HANDS_ Eden, who was inspired by the world of theater for her first book, wears puppeteer accessories.

Your beginnings?
Eden Levin: As a child, I wasn’t a very big reader, except for comics, then as a teenager I got into horror and science fiction short stories and started writing them.

Your first book?
During my master’s in literary creation, I had started a conceptual object, a mix between short story, theater and self-fiction, but very boring. Next, I was writing another text, a kind of stress relief. After a while, he took over.

Your writing process?
It’s something I like to do intuitively. It is a game of fun and curiosity. It’s having a blank page in front of you and launching yourself with the words that fall under your fingers… I often let myself be guided by a character or by a place that I describe.

The story ?
The characters were these three little theater students letting themselves be guided by the surrounding confusion. By taking these themes to the extreme and the absurd, great violence and more politicized subjects have arisen! It was fueled by a sense of political powerlessness in the face of the chaos around us.

What do you expect from the release of your book?
I hope it will be read! And then following all that, I will have the energy to write other texts.

Be part of the literary season?
The idea of ​​being crushed alongside Amélie Notomb and Virginie Despentes scared me. But I realized that it was a moment that allowed books to move, and to meet all those people who are essential to the book chain.

Thursday (Editions Notabilia/Black on White, 336 pages, €22)

By Anna Prudhomme
Photo : Arnaud Juhérian

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