Darling, the heroine of Christine Orban’s novel (pictured), not only likes to dress well — clothes are almost the only way for her to express herself.
Darling, the heroine of Christine Orban’s novel, doesn’t just like to dress well — clothes are almost the only way for her to express herself. Just as other people communicate with the world through language, Darling speaks about himself through clothes. Separate things at the same time replace words, and their combinations — whole phrases.
A thin and clever book by a famous French intellectual is about mutual understanding: once in Darling’s life a man appears, for the sake of which she will have to compile a kind of dictionary that allows her to translate from the language of clothes into ordinary human. And this task is not at all as impossible as it might seem.
ABC Classics, 320 p.