Whore

Guy Verville’s _Le Putain_, a novella barely fifty pages long, evokes in an enigmatic and haunting style solitude, infinity, the imbalance of a body deserted by the soul, and the humiliation that follows, insidious and treacherous. In the background is the city, always seen from the window of the room of gentle torments—the city endlessly churning through its arterial roads all the pain of living unconsciously…

In a very beautiful language that must be deciphered like a cryptogram, one detects a logic akin to the mathematics of money, often invoked, imposing its rules on everyday life and on the writer’s style. Through prose that is at once precise and sibylline, inviting multiple interpretations and opening numerous paths for reflection […] _Le Putain_ leaves us wanting to return to it and to search deeper in the text for all the meanings offered here.