Almost Dead in Venice, by Jackie Berroyer: wandering moods

Man of television (in particular on the show “Nulle part elsewhere” in the prime of Canal+) and radio, actor, screenwriter, journalist: Jackie Berroyer is one of these artists with multiple talents, and he is the writer, already author of around ten titles, who marks his return this fall. Almost died in Venice brings together travel stories spanning from 1976 to the present day, with visits to the City of the Doges as a common thread. A facetious nomad, Berroyer is one of those who had a wandering mood and he takes the reader from the Ile de Ré to Japan via Barcelona, ​​Switzerland or Portugal.

Here we are again in the sewers of Paris, on the stage of a Brussels theater with Roland Topor, in Jerusalem with Vuillemin, in Budapest on the set ofVictory is ours by John Huston. At the Dakar Jazz Festival, saxophonist Phil Woods is the only guest and performs concerts. In New York, in 1979, our walker…