Carla Demierre revisits the Swiss medium who claimed to speak Martian
A new book from La Fille de Mars press, itself named after its subject, returns to the strange case of Hélène Smith.
Carla Demierre's new book, 'Langage es-tu là ?', is out from the publisher La Fille de Mars, according to Diacritik, which reviewed the title on September 7. The book takes as its subject Hélène Smith, the pseudonym of Élise Müller, a Swiss medium and artist known for describing astral voyages, according to the same review.
Diacritik's summary offers little beyond this framing: Smith/Müller as a figure who claimed passage through other worlds, and Demierre's book as an engagement with that case. No further detail on the book's form, length or publication date is given in the source.
For readers who keep track of the Swiss literary scene, the pairing of author and publisher is itself notable: a small press bearing the name of its own subject, taking up a historical figure whose story has long fascinated writers and scholars interested in language, spiritualism and the borders between them.
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