What do you think of “Visa”, the latest book by Yann Moix?

A dialogue between the writer himself and the administrative officer of the general delegation of North Korea in order to obtain the key to discovering the secret country… this is the subject of this foreign story published this May 2 by Grasset.

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There will inevitably be a misunderstanding, on the occasion of the publication of the new (and very brief) novel by Yann Moix. If we present Visa as a fictional evocation of the writer’s departure for North Korea, the recent affair “Depardieu” will inevitably bias the reading. To the great joy of his detractors, who will find there something to scratch the author (a pedophilic interpretation of his work, the rehabilitation of his feature film ” damn “ Cinema, the supposed North Korean vision of the Arabs…). But this misunderstanding is undoubtedly the best way to understand this strange object, operating on a simple device: the dialogue between the writer and the administrative officer of…