“In Europe today, we lack an ecologist project capable of resisting the policies of suffocation in an increasingly unbreathable world. A project initiated in working-class neighborhoods, which would articulate enfinment with the land and freedom of movement. A project with its sights set on Africa, aiming to establish a broad internationalist front against global warming and the destruction of life itself. A project that would make the Mediterranean an autonomous space and a rallying point for mutinies in the North and South. A project that would see the liberation of land, animal liberation and equal human dignity as fundamentally linked. A project that assumes secession in the face of increasingly threatening right-wing extremist forces. A project that would take to the high seas in search of One Piece, the famous treasure from the manga of the same name, which has become a symbol of the thirst for freedom in working-class neighborhoods. A project that would put itself at the level of children and seek their well-being and liberation. This project is that of pirate ecology.

“A wilderness is a place from which one withdraws from all human contact. Here, a forest house, a vegetable garden, the mountains, a small animal, the stain of wild boars and an icy torrent will enable the narrator to learn to become one with the living, with herself, her own animality, her share of delirium and her unconscious. With this novel, Corinne Morel Darleux offers us a literature of trouble, between dream and madness, on the borders of “normality” and the so-called civilized world. She will talk to us about the making of La sauvagière and read excerpts from it around the themes of desertion, sustenance, care, the living, the body and slowing down.”