Ascension

by Vincent Delecroix

Chaïm Rosenzweig, écrivain sans grand succès qui a publié quelques romans sous le pseudonyme de Vincent Delecroix, est choisi par la Nasa pour faire partie de l'équipage d'une navette spatiale. Après quelques mois passés à préparer la mission à Houston, Chaïm embarque à bord de la navette avec des cosmonautes bigarrés et dubitatifs quant à la réelle utilité de sa présence.

640 pages, Paperback

First published August 24, 2017

About the author

Vincent Delecroix is a French philosopher and novelist, a specialist in Søren Kierkegaard, on whom he wrote his doctoral thesis.

He has published ten works of philosophy and eight works of fiction. He is a professor at the École Pratique des Hautes Études. He received the Valéry Larbaud Prize in 2007 for the novel Ce qui est perdu and the Grand Prize for Literature of the French Academy in 2008 for the novel Tombeau d’Achille. Small Boat, Helen Stevenson’s translation of his novel Naufrage (2023), was selected for the International Booker Prize 2025.

Reviews

[Noëlla · Rating 1 out of 5]

The author thinks he's good by criticizing his peers and writting sentences too much longer... but clearly he's not and his book is really boring. Finish it was a torture.

[Jean-Pascal · Rating 2 out of 5]

Longue plaisanterie chic et distanciée, pas toujours très fine et souvent ennuyeuse.