His announcement hit the headlines. Only two days before its release, on March 27, “Le Parisien” exclusively learned that Nicolas Demorand was going to publish, by Éditions Les Arènes, “interior night”, a book he had finished writing in the greatest secrecy. In a text of a hundred pages, the journalist, at the controls of the Matinale of France Inter alongside Léa Salamé, reveals to suffer from bipolarity for thirty years and relates her stays in psychiatric structure. A disorder that he had always hidden from the general public and his employer, Radio France.
120,000 copies billed in bookstores
In anticipation of a certain media craze, the work benefited from a publication under X, that is to say a discretional manufacturing procedure which allows to announce a book only a few days before its publication. A strategy that turned out to have been paid since “interior night” has made a spectacular start, according to information from Pupil. Ranked in the “Essays & References” category, he has just exceeded 50,000 sales in less than three weeks, between March 27 and April 13, according to the latest sales estimates of the GFK market research group. A score that has located it in the top 5 best -selling books in France for two weeks.
-“These are figures that we do not often see, even less in the “test” category“, We are delighted in the corridors of” Les Arenès “editions. Originally drawn to 100,000 copies,”120,000 were billed“, that is to say ordered by the booksellers. Faced with the success encountered, 20,000 additional pounds will be printed.
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Nicolas Demorand’s revelations were a shock wave in the media world. “”I am mentally ill and so I learned silence, concealment and lie. I am silent, I live what affects me in solitude, I shave the walls. Sometimes I give the change or look good – while I want to die“, He writes in particular in” interior night “. For this word to be heard, M6 will broadcast on Tuesday May 6 at 9:10 pm a documentary entitled” Mental health, breaking the taboo “and which will give the floor to anonymous and personalities like Florent Manaudou, Apple, Yannick Noah or Camille Lacourt.
