L'etoffe De L'univers, Paperback Book, By: CHEDID ANDREE

A book is just a portrait of the heart, each page a beat, " writes Emily Dickinson. that Andre Chedid adds that a book is also the thirst for an elsewhere, a salvo for the future. In The Cloth of the Universe, the girl in Cairo goes back to the origins of her life, explores through short poems the mystery of the passage on earth, the beauty and the strength, but also the fragility, especially when the adventure is manhandled by old age, death lurking. Returning to Saint Augustine and Shakespeare, Rilke or even Dylan Thomas, Andre Chedid clarifies his own writing. Without any certainty holding the top of the pavement, she specifies: "Do not be mistaken / I am only passing through / A fictitious being on a journey / Without a route / I push doors! Which open / On the life / And