Did Oedipus have a camera? Hervé Guibert talks in “Ghost Shot” about his perception of photography, encounters with the works of famous photographers, photographs of parents, friends and unknown people. These photographs speak of important and fleeting feelings, secrets and carnal fantasies. Who among us has not felt paralyzed in front of a photographic lens? Emerging from the dark room where he was engaged in witchcraft tricks, Guibert shows how the nature of the frame unites the atoms of the child, mother and father and determines the future of the family. “Ghost photo”, like a spell, creates bizarre images outside the book. The style of these texts, simple and clear, conceals something unusual, as if the developer had changed both the words themselves and even the grammar. The author's voice is still close to us, but a strange accent has appeared in it, and this is the accent not of another country, but of an unknown parallel world. Le Nouvel Observateur