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Invited to the books on the quays in Morges, last month, Kapka Kassabova gave us an appointment at the water’s edge at the time when the last rays of sunshine touch the tip of Mont-Blanc. Later, we will witness the rising of the red moon-“there will be an eclipse,” she will teach us. Could we dream of a better appropriate frame to connect with Animathe breath of the world, which gives the title to its new book? In the previous book, she went in search of the elixir with plant pickers in the Bulgarian mountains. “We all need an elixir. Because we are sick, collectively. Because we live against nature, separated that we are other living creatures. To heal ourselves, we must restore ecosystems at all levels. ”
It is expressed in impeccable French. Only a slightly singing intonation betrays its origins. Kapka Kassabova was born in Bulgaria. Country she left with her family to fall from the Berlin Wall. Destination New Zealand, where she followed studies in French and English literature. It has long been installed in the north of Scotland and English has become its language of writing. His books are superbly translated into French by Morgane Saysana, who restores her voice with sensitivity and loyalty. After Edge, the Lac Echo et Elixir, Anima is the fourth writing book of reality inspired by its Bulgarian wanderings.
