"False start" - Marion Messina on a reading tour
On Wednesday, 30 September, 6.30 pm, Art Collections
On Wednesday 30 September at 6.30 pm, French author Marion Messina will be presenting her debut novel "False Start". In 2017, the author had a brilliant debut with "Faux départ" (original French title) and was highly praised by critics as Houellebecq's heir. Claudia Steinitz's powerful translation into German was published at the beginning of this year (Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2020). Admission is free. Pre-registration at 488 4501 or info.kunstsammlungen(at)stadt-chemnitz.de
Marion Messina looks at the life and failure of a young woman in Paris - her furious debut is a stab at the heart of our crisis-ridden present. When her first love fails, nineteen-year-old Aurélie moves from Grenoble to Paris. There she finally wants to live life to the full and leave her parents' provincial working-class biographies behind her by studying law. But in Paris she barely manages to get a job as a receptionist, the housing market turns out to be an anarchic zone and love is a farce between friendly arrangements and pornography. But then Aurélie sets everything back to square one.
Full of anger, clear-sightedness and merciless irony, Marion Messina looks at the life of a young woman and into the heart of a new lost generation.
Marion Messina was born in Grenoble in 1990. After leaving school, she studied political science and agricultural science and worked as a freelance journalist.
This project is co-financed with taxpayers' money on the basis of the budget approved by the Saxon state parliament.