NARRATIVE – We took the risk of asking the founder of the Prix de Flore to tell us the story of this non-conformist literary award born just thirty years ago. He says a lot of good things about it, disregarding all objectivity.
The best first novel of the literary season has gone completely unnoticed. This is the story of David Baumer, a young start-up boss who employs an admirer of Marc Levy. Fascinated by this creature (named Sheyenne), the narrator discovers a conspiracy sect galvanized by the author ofWhat if it was true ?, which would be a Marxist theorist fomenting the next revolution. Is this nonsense? Yes and no. The end of the novel is a violent delirium in the form of an apocalyptic apotheosis, but the book, written two years ago, embraces current events like no other. It is a crazy but ambitious novel, which denounces the extremist delusions of the Internet, the danger of false truths, the West's shift into conspiracy, the fragility of democracies in the face of large digital companies. Impossible to find more urgent!
Published by a small independent publisher (Rue Fromentin), Marc is the first published manuscript from a 35-year-old author…
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