La Femme Rouge is a mute voice which has fixed its language in writing. From the silence of breathing to the visual proliferation of letters, the sound cannot be heard, it is merely rendered legible. La Femme Rouge does not cry, in the sense of shouting, of speaking to someone - she writes herself, she registers. To eat one’s words, to have it on the tip of one’s tongue, not to breathe a word - La Femme Rouge plays with the double meaning and the double function of language: to eat and to talk. La Femme Rouge feeds itself with words. The condensed words which cannot escape perforate La Femme Rouge’s body and spread out in confusion, bursting the body with words and abolishing the meaning of language. La Femme Rouge’s hoarse voice offers itself to be read as a visual glare of confused noises. With its absence of spoken language, La Femme Rouge prints the words’ visual silence and makes a screaming text out of the book’s mute words.
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