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Gabrielle Wittkop perpetuates the myth of the harpies

Harpy nest on the facade of the Palace of the Rhine in Strasbourg

Work atypical Gabrielle Wittkop , The Almanac perpetual harpies, subtitled "with explanation of their origins, customs, habits, metamorphoses and intended, "has a strange set of variations around the figure of the harpy. Composed of poems, short excerpts encyclopedic, mythological allusions, correspondences imaginary, fictional news items, testimonies fabricated, false Ballad of several cruel tales, but some riddles and limericks, it is primarily a puzzle play with different pieces meet each other in a spirit of malicious and earthy look great. If the tone shifts from one register to another with disconcerting ease, the image of the harpy remains present to the reader's mind throughout the book with a red wire, the texts remain attached while progressively acquiring autonomy vis-à-vis the figure rooted in Greek mythology. Alternately toothed cylinder resulting in a comical exchange between the manager of a pulp mill and the manufacturer of machines used within it, rather bawdy night butterfly fascinating the Harpy is transformed to the whim wittkopienne which warns the reader very quickly this way:

"But who can know the metamorphoses of the Harpies?
constantly changing over the centuries, they adopted the faces always repeated, always renewed, pours into each other in perpetual motion like the sea where they were born. "

Wittkop Gabrielle strives to demonstrate its presence in the modern chaos unsuspected, to track its apparitions invisible to ordinary mortals also looks Cryptologic, while retaining a degree of self-mockery non-negligible.

Far from being innocent, the choice of the harpy can be seen as a parable of the author herself, whose work often has confused the public and has been the victim of a controversial interpretation of the narrow and responding to stigma associated with themes and titles chosen, giving off a faint smell of sulfur.
Drawing black and white plumage appears to enter the contrasting fate of an artist who was considered heretical by the censors, and rehabilitated before being reviewed by his peers as a venerable author, with a legendary bird, able to grip the reader as a vulnerable prey.

• dévouvrir A: The Perpetual Almanac harpies Gabrielle Wittkop at Patrice Thierry Publisher Collection of Ether Wave (1995)