Eléonore Bonah and Maria Clara Castioni, resident artists at the Comédie de Genève, have adapted and directed *Chrüsimüsi*, a production in which they engage with the fascinating yet still little-known work of the Basel-based writer Adelheid Duvanel.

Hypersensitive characters, everyday gestures suspended between the absurd and the grotesque, inner worlds that resist reality: Duvanel’s universe is made up of short, incisive texts, of a poetic prose reminiscent of Kafka and Walser, which recounts, in fragments, the lives of individuals unable to adapt to the norms, confined to the margins, trapped in cramped spaces. Having fallen rapidly into oblivion following the author’s suicide in 1996, her work is now being rediscovered, thanks in part to its translation into French, revealing a significant voice in 20th-century Swiss and German-speaking literature.
Drawing on the stories of Adelheid Duvanel, the two artists have created a multilingual performance – in French, German and Italian – that immerses the audience in the author’s sensibility: in her humour that borders on despair, in her unique use of language, and in the joyful and stubborn resilience of those who live on the margins of the world.