Les Forces

It's the story of a girl who doesn't agree with the social order.
Is there a way out?
Why should life’s sole purpose be to make us live in the world as we know it?
Has our attention become a form of property, like land?
Are our faces images, shop windows?
Has something broken inside us?

Part Odyssey, part existential enquiry, LES FORCES is a deep dive inside the human mind, dissecting the social structures that influence our thoughts and questioning the true meaning of the human experience, asking how to be and how to stay alive in this world, in all its violence and tenderness. Travelling from childhood to writing, via a mysterious lesbian bar, through an abandoned house, into a building filled with cults occupying every floors, onto the top of a mountain, the narrator takes us on a furious odyssey dotted with Homeric mirrors and bards’ chants that show us the book in the making.

Alternating between the prosaic and the theoretical, the book unfolds in a narrative ranging from the tragic to the comic, through the narrator’s initiatory and political journey. Nature is perceived as an incessant flow, a vital energy, each segment of which can contain the whole. We are reminded of Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Samuel Beckett, and Simone Weil in the way Laura Vazquez approaches force. A cardinal novel in the work of Laura Vazquez.