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«Il avait dû se tromper d'avenir dans un vestiaire du temps où il faisait du sport, et repartir avec celui d'un autre sur l'épaule. »D'abord, il y a le ton résolument moderne qui surprend : ce goût pour l'ellipse et les échappées, ce plaisir de la vitesse en prose. Puis, c'est le charme décousu des personnages qui opère : mélancolique et fantaisiste, chacun libère un parfum d'étrangeté à la fois déconcertant et familier. Enfin, c'est le génie de l'écrivain qui saisit : cette maîtrise de la fiction, l'insignifiant qui prend sens. Car finalement Patrick Deville, c'est surtout le jeu pur de la langue, reflet du monde fantasmatique qui traverse ses premiers écrits.

560 pages, Pocket Book

Published August 17, 2017

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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.

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