Plasmas

After receiving her degree in philosophy, Céline Minard was a bookseller in Paris for seven years. In each of her books, she tries to explore new fictional territory, conducting vital experiences with times, places, voices and bodies, in order to transcend literary forms. She is the author of several novels including Le Dernier Monde (2007), Bastard Battle (2008), and So long, Luise (2011). Her books have been translated into multiple languages.Annabel L. Kim is Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University and the author of two books: Unbecoming Language: Anti-Identitarian French Feminist Fictions (2018) and Cacaphonies: The Excremental Canon of French Literature (2022).

Winner of the French Prix de l'imaginaire 2022"Plasmas is a cubist painting: representing reality, while simultaneously shattering our perception of it." —The Harvard Gazette"Plasmas is six stories that, as an archipelago—vaguely disquieting, wonderfully styled—constitutes a unique literary planet, if not a constellation of heretofore unclassified matter, forming an unprecedented unknown." —Le Monde"With Plasmas, Céline Minard demonstrates the fertility of an imagination controlled by a very ‘plastic’ sense of narration, making this crafted figuration an invitation to surprise." —Alain Nicolas, L’Humanité"A transfusion of Plasmas will not be enough to save our ailing world... But in regenerating literature, there is no doubt." —Elisabeth Phillipe, Le Nouvel Obs"These unexpected, luminescent fusions of post-human biological futures infused with the theoretical and literary sensibilities pay off on every sensory level. This (sometimes literally!) acrobatic little book is a window into othering thinking, and thinking about bodies, with a thrilling strangeness." —A.V. Marraccini"Post-human, dystopian, Black Mirror-esque and startlingly original, Minard weaves stories that capture an essence of humanity that is equally important in its absence as it is in its presence." —Shelf Seeker