MOn Wednesday, November 20, at 7 p.m., round thirty readers took their place, within the coronary heart of our editorial workplace, dealing with the author Bernard Minier. The writer of the Martin Servaz saga or that of Lucia Guerrero, whose final quantity, The Erasedwas launched final yr by Cats and 14 merciless evil thriller tales.
Homage to his literary masters corresponding to Lovecraft, Poe and Borgès, Cats and 14 merciless evil thriller taleswhich its irresistible classic cowl instantly transforms into an object of our (black) need, attracts on totally different veins (police, fantasy, SF), flirts with gore and terror, performs with morality, seems grating, darkish and delicate. Psychopathic youngsters, “dark tourism” in a catastrophe zone, hallucinatory forensics, jealous lovers, animal tales: there’s all the pieces, and it’s all loopy.
The members of our e book membership (or studying membership – we hear the Anglophobes protesting right here) had been in a position to meet the author and ask him their questions, after having beforehand acquired a duplicate of the textual content.
Sources of inspiration, relationship to actuality and morality, writing strategies and methods, anecdotes, suggestions, future initiatives: the author’s complete universe unfolded within the area of 1 night.
Then got here the time for signings over drinks, and everybody went residence. But take it as a right: the expertise wowed us, and it is going to be repeated…
To take part within the subsequent e book membership organized in our premises, look ahead to the devoted inserts within the newspaper, and observe The Point on social networks: all data will probably be disseminated there.
“Cats and 14 cruel diabolical mystery stories”, by Bernard Minier (Pocket, 336 p., €10) and “Les Effacées”, collector’s version (XO, 412 p., €22.90)
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