AGATHE SIMON
Life

Text attributed to an imaginary novelist

© Agathe Simon

For The Conti Project, a multimedia cycle created in homage to an imaginary writer, Agathe Simon wrote several texts that she attributed to Gabriela Conti, bringing her literary incarnation to life. These (real) texts are published by Éditions Claudine Béal (a fictional publishing house).

The fifth text by Gabriela Conti, entitled Life,is an ironic and fragmented account, a fictional diary interrupted by her death, an initiatory ode. From the Argentine dictatorship to Antarctica, from the Amazon rainforest to Seoul, Life traces Gabriela Conti’s quest during the last months of her life.