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What I could do
if I wasn't afraid
By Maïna Chirokoff
This is not a book, it is an artistic exploration for healing.
Maïna Chirokoff doesn't just write stories; like the works of Remedios Varo—a very present reference in this book—she uses creation as a bridge to the depths of her own being. And suddenly, art transforms into a powerful tool for undertaking this inner journey. A complex and long journey, far from a straight path, closer to a surreal labyrinth, filled with dark corners and characters one would not want to awaken.
And you, what would you do if you weren't afraid?
Dad is giving birth!
By Stéphane Chirokoff
Begun as a logbook (or diary), this text attempts to recount, with a very masculine approach, the days leading up to and following the birth of Noëmie, my first daughter.
This is not a novel, nor an essay. Its only pretensions are to tell a tiny piece of history and capture a few select moments.
This text, written as I went along at the time of Noëmie's birth, lay dormant for almost thirty years before I rediscovered it.
I wanted to give it to my daughter, I barely touched it and I deliver it to you as it was… delivered.
Que haria si no tuviera miedo
(What I could do if I wasn't afraid)
By Maïna Chirokoff
This is not a book, it is an artistic exploration for healing.
Maïna Chirokoff doesn't just write stories; like the works of Remedios Varo—a very present reference in this book—she uses creation as a bridge to the depths of her own being. And suddenly, art transforms into a powerful tool for undertaking this inner journey. A complex and long journey, far from being a straight path, closer to a surreal labyrinth, filled with dark corners and characters one would not want to awaken.
And you, what would you do if you weren't afraid?
( Translated from the back cover )
Language: Spanish (maybe a French edition soon?)
The last beautiful stories of Chironimo
By Francois Chirokoff
Collection
In his autobiography ("The Black Flag no longer floats over the Farmhouse"), the author was already wondering about the meaning of his life: "Who am I?"
Having received no satisfactory or even coherent answer, he then embarked on writing a real novel ("Quai des Indes"), creating a female character with whom he inevitably fell in love, until he understands that the narration of his story has escaped him from the beginning. The author, losing control of his writing, finds himself faced with the improbability of his own existence! A question therefore imposes itself on him, obsessive, haunting: "Am I?"
In his third opus, François Chirokov gives us nearly thirty short stories, inspired by his childhood memories, a few musical notes and yellowed photos, with no apparent link to each other, except his readers, who - through their comments (published on Shortédition) - finally deliver him from his quest: "You exist!"
In "The last beautiful stories", Chironimo, finally freed from his existential anxieties, invites us to discover his most recent stories, and certainly the most intimate. For our happiness, he brings his friends and relatives back to life, creating with them a surprising dialogue that makes fun of the passage of time and the thousands of kilometers that separate them.
The Pink Russian
By Suzanne Canepari & Stéphane Chirokoff
Illustrated biography of Sergei Alexeievich Chirokov
To understand Serge, you had to know where he came from, what he had been through. It was necessary to know the sacrifices made, the sufferings experienced. Only then did childhood memories, put end to end, take on meaning and paint, year after year, memory after memory, each of the traits of that man's character. This collection of memories retraces the story of a man who went through history, quietly, while he was living it and making it. These bits of text, borrowed from melancholy, joy and sadness, are the bits of a painting which try to draw Serge, the “Russe Russian”. "The true tomb of the dead is the heart of the living" (Tacitus)
The beautiful stories of Chironimo
By Francois Chirokoff
Collection
After "the Black Flag no longer floats over the Métairie" and its "Quai des Indes", François Chirokov, with this third opus, invites us to discover nearly thirty short stories, inspired by his childhood memories, a few musical notes and yellowed photos, with no apparent link to each other, except for his readers, who -through their comments- finally free him from his quest:_cc781905-5cde -3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_"You exist!"
Quay of the Indies
followed bySchism Gas
By Francois Chirokoff
Novel
"Quai des Indes" tells the story of an old retiree who, even if he often claims the opposite, is quite bored. Under an assumed name, Chironimo, he becomes a writer-amateur, and imagines a female character, whose name he will discover long after falling in love with her. The action takes place over several months, mainly near a bistro that the old man frequents assiduously, on a somewhat deserted Quai, in southern Brittany. The love affair between the character from the author's imagination and the latter ends up making the reader himself doubt the reality: is the author the character of a novel written by his double, or by one of his characters? The last chapter offers us a surprising denouement, where Chironimo, supposedly losing control of his narration, finds himself faced with the improbability of his own existence! A question then imposes itself on him, haunting, haunting: "Am I?"
The black flag
By Francois Chirokoff
Surreal biography of François Chirokoff
"Crazy" autobiography or science fiction novel, "the black flag no longer flies over the Métairie" could be a good example of what Boris Cyrulnik affirms: "In every work of the imagination, there is a self-narrative. every autobiography, there is an imaginary reworking"
