Benjamin Stock wins the Flore prize for his first novel

Benjamin Stock wins the Flore prize for his first novel
Benjamin Stock wins the Flore prize for his first novel

A crazy novel which imagines a secret community of readers of Marc Lévy preparing a world revolution. A biting critique of the failings of our time and a serious reflection on the ravages of relativism.

It's a crazy novel with an absurd scenario which received the Flore prize, awarded in the brasserie of the same name. A prestigious award for its author Benjamin Stock who signs his first book. His hero, David, is a thirty-year-old Parisian, founder of a startup with unclear objectives of inclusiveness and digital transition, the “Share Factory”. Shaken by a meeting with a young Dostoyevskian waiter who questions him about the meaning of life, he begins to go through an existential crisis. It was then that one of his employees introduced him to a clandestine community of Marc Lévy readers. His followers meet in secret to read between the lines the messages that the popular novelist purposely sows in his work. The author of What if it was true Would he be a dissident calling to undergroundly foment a global communist revolution against the “system”? Benjamin Stock, 35, says he was inspired by Quanon's American conspiracy scenario…

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