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Le Voyant d’Étampes
Abel Quentin
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Abel Quentin
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Winner of the Prix de Flore 2021
« J’allais conjurer le sort, le mauvais œil qui me collait le train depuis près de trente ans. Le Voyant d’Étampes serait ma renaissance et le premier jour de ma nouvelle vie. J’allais recaver une dernière fois, me refaire sur un registre plus confidentiel, mais moins dangereux. »
Universitaire alcoolique et fraîchement retraité, Jean Roscoff se lance dans l’écriture d’un livre pour se remettre en selle : Le voyant d’Étampes, essai sur un poète américain méconnu qui se tua au volant dans l’Essonne, au début des années 60.
A priori, pas de quoi déchaîner la critique. Mais si son sujet était piégé ?
Abel Quentin raconte la chute d’un anti-héros romantique et cynique, à l’ère des réseaux sociaux et des dérives identitaires. Et dresse, avec un humour délicieusement acide, le portrait d’une génération.
448 pages; Mass Market Paperback; J'ai Lu
First published August 18, 2021 - this edition in August 24, 2022
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Le Voyant d'Estampes
The anti-hero here is a retired, washed-up alcoholic beset by his toxic daughter, her toxic partners and his superior ex-wife. Very woke and negative. An open invitation to make amends to the world by his suicide, no doubt. But the anti-hero decides to adopt the poetry of an American ex-patriot, a vague shadowy figure. Is that enough to save the book? No
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