The novelist Grégoire Bouillier, author of the recent Orangerie Syndromeresponds to Michel Bernard, author of Two remorse by Claude Monet (2016), who found similarities between their two books.
What to oppose to “felt» from an author who thinks my book would have done «more than inspiration » of his? What can we oppose to it, if not the facts?
Concerning the quote from Georges Clemenceau that Michel Bernard reproaches me for having borrowed from him: yes, I found it in his novel, as he himself admits to having been inspired by the thoughts of Élie Faure, or even by one of his books, but he no longer knows which one. So… If I don’t quote Michel Bernard, it’s because I believed that it was a real quote from Clemenceau, which had therefore fallen into the public domain. I therefore thank Michel Bernard for disabusing me: this quote will disappear from any future reprint of my book, precisely because it is invented. Another, truthful, will replace it. No offense, this is where our writings end “stand out” : between the true and the false, I draw a line which, in all my books, prohibits me from falsifying reality, even for romanticized purposes. This is my ethic. Knowing that we are talking here about four…
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