A Le Monde critic reads Gaëlle Obiégly's meditation on why we turn to art
In her literary column, Tiphaine Samoyault discusses "Rien à voir", in which Gaëlle Obiégly's narrator tries to understand what draws people to works of art.
Tiphaine Samoyault's literary column in Le Monde is devoted this week to "Rien à voir", a novel by Gaëlle Obiégly. According to the column, the book's narrator sets out to understand the reasons people turn toward works of art, using that inquiry as the thread running through the text.
Samoyault describes the novel, per Le Monde, as exploring an intimate relationship to art, one that ultimately becomes what she calls a lesson in absence. Beyond this framing, the source material does not give further detail on plot, characters or publisher.
Gaëlle Obiégly is a French writer whose work has previously drawn attention from literary critics; no further biographical or bibliographical detail is given in this report, as none was supplied in the available material.
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