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The Moissagais writer Jean Songe will discuss his work, and in particular his investigation into the Outreau affair.
If we were to put the words written by Jean Songe end to end, we would reach the Moon. The writer who has lived in Moissac for several decades was (and remains) a keen witness to the musical scene (himself a musician and above all a “song-writer”), and a poetic agitator with this famous ZAP (Zone d’Activités Poétiques). ) that he created at the end of the 2000s with his wife Manou and a few artist friends. The Zap is still alive and well and today organizes the Festiv’ de Plein Chant, the third edition of which will take place this year on the heights of Piac on August 18.
Jean Songe is also involved in associative action, notably with Zaedno, to facilitate living together with the city’s Bulgarian community. He is above all recognized as a fine writer of the noir novel and for several years, an investigator with his last three works: My Atomic Life (2016, Calmann-Levy), Sodexo la glutonne (2021, Seuil) and À l’ombre d’Outreau, published this year in April, still by Editions du Seuil. His uncompromising investigations do not neglect what constitutes the signature of this well-read writer experienced in fiction: his precise style. It was obvious that his works would eventually be shipped aboard the barge bookstore Ancrier, moored since the beginning of May in the port of Moissac. It is therefore on the quay in front of the floating bookstore that this Wednesday, June 19 at 5:30 p.m., Jean Songe will discuss his journey and his work during a meeting which will be hosted and moderated by Christian Laguille, himself author and correspondent of press, and in which the public will be able to participate orally. We will be able to discuss his latest book, twenty years after this Outreau trial which has so much to reveal to us about the human condition, its dark side and the inadequacies and inconsistencies of social, police and judicial institutions. It will be possible to obtain the work and have it signed at the end of this special moment with the author.
