“I went through a zone of turbulence recently, the kind that makes you understand that life is fragile”

After the novel, Delphine de Vigan invests a new literary field: the theater. His latest book is in fact a piece called The Extras and published by Gallimard editions. A development that flowed naturally after his novel Gratitudes was adapted for the theater. Guest of the show “Conversations”, the author explains to Joseph Ghosn, deputy editorial director of Madame Figarothe springs of this first theatrical experience: “I wrote this novel which is a little bit hybrid (…) with this idea that it would perhaps arouse desires for staging”. The choice to propose with The Extras a play is justified by its “visual dimension”: “Immediately I saw these extras in a cinema scene”. And to elaborate: “They are the invisibles of cinema. They are both part of the decor (…) we absolutely need them (…) and at the same time we must not see them.

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Write at night

During the show, the one who published 10 novels, including No and me, Nothing stands in the way of the nightet Based on a true story who have obtained literary prizes such as the Goncourt des Lycéens, the Renaudot or the Booksellers Prize, also discusses his literary work practices. First writing at night when she was employed during the day at the RATP, a rhythm where she had “the feeling of doing violence to me”, with “writing very removed from everyday life”. His dismissal is then an opportunity to “write in the light of day”. She can then immerse herself in the worlds she explores through “a part of documentation”. “If I talk about a profession, a world, I want to know it as best as possible,” she explains.

She also confides that she has started writing her next novel: “I hope to have found the right entry point to bring it to fruition.” The answer in its pages in a few months.