Margaux Cassan turns her attention to skin in a new rentrée title
After essays on nudity and tanning, the writer publishes "Stigmates," a close study of skin, as part of this year's rentrée littéraire.
French writer Margaux Cassan is out this rentrée with "Stigmates," a book that examines skin, according to a profile in Télérama. The publication describes her prose as incisive, treating the skin as something to be probed and pierced in search of what it calls a kind of mysticism.
The book follows two earlier essays by Cassan, on nudity and on tanning, Télérama notes, placing "Stigmates" as a continuation of a body of work centered on the body itself. The outlet quotes the skin as "le motif littéraire le plus génial qui soit" — the most brilliant literary motif there is — in describing Cassan's fascination with the subject.
Télérama frames the piece as a portrait of a singular young writer, met for the occasion of the new book's publication during the 2026 rentrée littéraire. No further detail on the book's length, publisher or release date was included in the material available.
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