LIFE OR ALMOST: the pangs of literary creation

LIFE OR ALMOST A beautiful novel about the power of the free

Paul and Simon, two rather antagonistic brothers, meet Idoya in the 90s, a whimsical young girl who shares with them an obvious passion for literature. Beautiful, original, provocative, Idoya has read everything, and reads them the first three pages of a novel she wrote but which remains unfinished.

Almost life begins in the early 90s, at the end of their childhood, and ends in the middle of the 21st century; which gives him time to chart three destinies at odds with each other.

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He is the author of nine books including Wild Days (Seuil, 2020). With Life or Almost, he writes a beautiful novel about the power of books and the search for happiness. Ample, with sometimes almost lyrical accents, the story is crossed by reflections of rare accuracy on creation, ambition – achieved or disappointed – friendly or fraternal relationships. Each chapter gives the opportunity to discover the creative processes , the attempts, the disillusionment with writing a novel…

Through these three figures, Xabi Molia offers us a lucid, sincere, touching, even sometimes heartbreaking story. on the throes of literary creation.

This novel may appear as a fascinating attempt to answer the question of what it is to write and to show to what extent a single answer does not exist.

Xabi Molia’s novel is a real whirlwind. Barely opened, we are embarked on a journey through literature – which ends in the 2070s, the year which saw Maylis de Karengal obtain the Nobel Prize – from which we emerge with stars in our eyes.

Life or almost, Xabi Mollia, published on 08/19/2024 by Editions du Seuil

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