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« La Voix du Nord demande si les deux auteurs se sentent particulièrement concernés par le thème de ce soir, Écrire la vie.
Nous nous sentons particulièrement concernés. Nous ne voyons pas ce que nous pourrions écrire d’autre.
En poussant un peu, nous pourrions démontrer qu’écrire la vie est un pléonasme.
— Mais est-ce que ce n’est pas voué à l’échec ?
Nous pensons que si. Nous persistons néanmoins dans cette gageure. Nous serons bientôt au Salon du livre. »
Prenez un romancier en tournée promotionnelle aux quatre coins de l’Hexagone. Un personnage comme un autre. Le voilà vrp de ses propres livres, ou plutôt ethnologue distancié qui rend compte des rouages de la machinerie culturelle. Entre parcours du combattant, traversée du désert et théâtre burlesque de l’absurde.
[EXTRACT] “The newspaper La Voix du Nord asks if the two authors feel particularly concerned by the theme of tonight : Writing Life. Yes, we feel particularly concerned. We do not know what else we are expected to write.
Going further, we could demonstrate that writing life is a tautology.
— But isn’t it doomed to failure?
We believe it is. Still we persist in this challenge. We will soon be at the Book Fair.”
Take a novelist on a promotional tour all over France (Book festivals, galas, meetings in bookshops, radio program recordings…). A character like any other. He is like an agent of his own books, travelling twice (2012 and 2013) for one year at a time. He testifies in a distanced and ethnological manner when he reports on the mechanisms of culture wich is something between an obstacle course, desert crossing and a burlesque theater of the absurd.
La politesse is a sardonic, desperate image of the literary world which ends with a utopic fantasy set in 2023 when the author vanishes as Author and becomes simply a humble writer in a community in which everybody writes.
PRESS
“Readers and journalists, everyone receives serious attacks. (…) You have to read this novel by François Bégaudeau, which sheds light so delicately and so cruelly, on the misery of our literary scene. ” (Le Monde des livres – Jean Birnbaum)
“Bégaudeau proves with this work he is a talentuous writer of dialogue.” (Technikart – Baptiste Liger)
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