De guerre ou d’ailleurs : Séverine Chevalier refuse l’effacement

Séverine Chevalier’s *De guerre ou d’ailleurs* is a dark social novel exploring the violent mechanisms of public spectacle and media destruction. The narrative follows Rémi, who discovers his presumed-dead mother living as Lolita B., a former reality television figure now subject to public mockery and exploitation. Through fragmented prose that mirrors media discourse—advertising language, psychological jargon, editorial commentary—Chevalier anatomizes the apparatus transforming a woman into consumable spectacle. The novel indicts multiple complicit figures (writers, psychologists, producers, intellectuals) while examining how destruction becomes normalized and profitable. Chapter titles drawn from search queries expose the reduction of personhood to quantifiable metrics, positioning the work as both critique of contemporary media cultures and examination of capitalist violence against subjectivity.

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