Les Personnages, Paperback Book, By: Sylvie Germain

One day, they are there. One day, without any concern of the time. We do not know where they came from, or why or how they entered. They always enter like this, unexpectedly and by breaking and entering. And that without making any noise, without apparent damage. They have an astounding discretion to pass through the wall. They: the characters. "In twenty-five paintings and two short stories, Sylvie Germain evokes this obscure zone where characters and authors do business. Between the figures of Kundera, Celan and Michelangelo, she walks with freedom and, rather than an essay, offers us the intimate story of these "silent suppliants" in search of a writer who gives them the floor.