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En brefs chapitres qui fourmillent d'anecdotes, de faits historiques et de rencontres ou de coïncidences, Patrick Deville peint la fresque de l'extraordinaire bouillonnement révolutionnaire dont le Mexique et quelques-unes de ses villes (la capitale, mais aussi Tampico ou Cuernavaca) seront le chaudron dans les années 1930. Les deux figures majeures du roman sont Trotsky, qui poursuit là-bas sa longue fuite et y organise la riposte aux procès de Moscou tout en fondant la IVe Internationale, et Malcolm Lowry, qui ébranle l'univers littéraire avec son vertigineux Au-dessous du volcan. Le second admire le premier : une révolution politique et mondiale, ça impressionne. Mais Trotsky est lui aussi un grand écrivain, qui aurait pu transformer le monde des lettres si une mission plus vaste ne l'avait pas requis. On croise Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Tina Modotti, l'énigmatique B Traven aux innombrables identités, ou encore André Breton et Antonin Artaud en quête des Tarahumaras. Une sorte de formidable danse macabre où le génie conduit chacun à son tombeau. C'est tellement mieux que de renoncer à ses rêves.

220 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2014

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Patrick Deville

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Patrick Deville (born 14 December 1957) is a French writer and studied comparative literature and philosophy at the University of Nantes. During the 1980s, Patrick Deville lived in the Middle East, Nigeria and Algeria. In the 1990s, he regularly visited Cuba and Uruguay.

In 2011, Lire magazine editors selected Kampuchea as the best French novel of the year. His novel Plague and Cholera (life of the bacteriologist Alexandre Yersin) was one of the most prominent of the literary season (2012), and was a finalist in almost all French book awards. He received the Fnac and the Prix Femina prize for the novel.

His books have now been translated into a dozen languages.

(Rephrased from Wikipedia)

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