On the rails with Chiara Meichtry-Gonet

Le Regard Libre N° 72 - Ivan Garcia

Journalist and writer, with a specialization in mathematical logic, deputy director of the Association Valaisanne des Entrepreneurs (AVE), Chiara Meichtry-Gonet is at the crossroads of several paths... or rails, one might say. In autumn 2020, she published her second novel Mathilde-sous-Gare with Bernard Campiche. It was an opportunity for me to meet her and discuss her singular profile and her vivid, disturbing world, during a trip by train and elsewhere.

«I'll be waiting for you in Lausanne on the platform (I'm usually near an ashtray, say, on the Valais side)». It was with this sentence, among others, that the appointment with Chiara Meichtry-Gonet was made. I learned of her existence by reading her stories. First of all, Passage des cœurs noirs, published in 2019 by Bernard Campiche Editeur, a story that su