Interview
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Interview with the young author about her second imperative novel “Aimez Gil”.
You have to go down into a cellar where bodies undulate and stick to each other in sweat and alcohol to meet Gil. What she looks for in a glass, “it is the assurance, the beauty, the irresistibility of [sa] mouth”. It is the beginning of an escape, that of a lost youth. We understand this from the title of this second novel in the imperative, Love Gilimplied listen and look at this woman. You have to see her travel around France, for a summer, with Mathias and Mathieu – her fantasy friends/lovers – aboard a dented, spitting Clio. “black smoke”. Often seated in the back seat, Gil smokes “shit cigarette” on “shit cigarette” and grabs warm beers from the glove compartment. It is a mistake to believe that we free ourselves by driving, “we’re too stupid actually” when you are 25 years old. Meeting with Shane Haddad.
What was the starting point?
It all started from a writing workshop in the third year of college. It was necessary to invent a new story inspired by Rimbaud, the son by Pierre Michon. No doubt influenced by my reading of Jules and Jim by Henri-Pierre Roché (Gallimard, 1953) or from to M
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