The Invention of the Present, by Pierre Bergounioux: Faulkner, Michon & Cie

First published in 2006, here is one of the most enlightening books by the novelist, essayist and relevant diarist Pierre Bergounioux, The Invention of the Presentwith Exist twice. He pays homage to his masters and renews his admirations, from Flaubert and Alain-Fournier to his friend Pierre Michon, via Claude Simon, Faulkner, his mentor, to whom he had devoted an essay around twenty years ago. ‘years (Until Faulknerin the collection “L’un et l’autre”), and Jacques Réda, who accompanied the writing of his first novel, Catherine. Jacques Réda, 95 years old, died at the beginning of the week, who has just published with the same publisher, a highly recommendable short essay on dance and swing, The Fox Trot.

This celebration of heritage assumed by this native Limousin is accompanied by a new praise of literature, through reflections, and the confirmation of his faith in writing, this “unnatural act”. “No language, he notes, will not replace…