La Renfermée, la Corse — Marie Susini & Chris Marker — Seuil — 1981

La Renfermée, la Corse brings together the writing of Marie Susini and photographs by Chris Marker in a portrait of Corsica shaped by memory, attachment and the tensions of island life. Published by Éditions du Seuil in 1981, the book places a literary reflection on belonging alongside black-and-white images of the island, its people and its surroundings.

Susini considers the emotional hold of her place of origin as well as the constraints of a traditional society. Her relationship with Corsica is both intimate and questioning: home is a source of identity, but also a place whose inherited expectations can restrict individual lives. Marker’s photographs give the volume a parallel visual register, inviting the reader to move between written reflection and the particulars of people and place.

This illustrated French-language volume will interest readers of photographic essays, Corsican literature and Chris Marker’s work with still images. Its combination of text and photography makes it a distinctive encounter between two ways of describing the same island.

Publication details

• Title: La Renfermée, la Corse
• Text: Marie Susini
• Photographs: Chris Marker
• Publisher: Éditions du Seuil, Paris, France
• Publication year: 1981, as stated in the photographed copyright page
• Language: French
• Binding: illustrated hardcover
• Dimensions: approximately 28.5 × 20.5 cm
• Pagination: 90 numbered pages, with additional unnumbered matter; catalogue totals vary
• Illustrations: black-and-white photographs
• ISBN-10: 2-02-005900-2
• ISBN-13: 9782020059008

Condition

Used copy. White cover shows surface marks and light wear at the edges.