Published on October 10, 2024 at 00:35. / Modified on October 10, 2024 at 00:36.
There is a constant throughout the fictional stories dedicated to places always loaded with linguistic sounds, encounters, memories, friendships and loves that Thierry Clermont explores: it is the tutelary figure of the writer who detaches himself from this moving geography, to which he pays homage book after book. Saint Michael (2014) casts the omnipresent shadow of Petersburger Joseph Brodsky in Venice; the Frenchman Robert Desnos visits the Havana of the pre-war regime in baroque bordello (2020); Liam O’Flaherty, the Irish native of neighboring Inis Mor, the largest of the Aran Islands, makes his Gaelic voice heard in The Galway Walk (2021); the haunting presence of Sergei Dovlatov, another Petersburger from the “third generation” of Russian emigration, spreads throughout the New York trip of Long Island, Baby (2022).
“Countless cherubs on the roofs”
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