Christian Bobin - L'eau des miroirs - 2025

Gallimard deluxe edition

On vellum paper

Number 51/60

"The Water of Mirrors" by Christian Bobin

Summary :
The Water of Mirrors is a poetic narrative, no doubt the first by which Christian Bobin, then a young poet, finds his voice. Yet it is a woman who speaks to us. She is dying, abandoned by her lover. And as cold death spreads over her, she recounts the love that linked her to a living man sequestered among his books. From this very romantic situation already flows the richness of the work in gestation: the rupture with the world, the words of carnal desire, the salvific nature where one can surrender. This book acts like a birth — violent, tender, essential.