(Paris) A posthumous novel by Christian Bobin, written until the last moments of his life from the hospital, must be published in early 2024, Gallimard editions announced on Monday.
The whisper is scheduled for 1er FEBRUARY.
“Started at his home in Le Creusot in July 2022, continued on his hospital bed during the two months preceding his death on November 23, 2022, The whisper belongs to these extreme works written in extreme conditions,” indicates the publisher in its release program.
Gallimard sees in this text “the trace of a race between love and death”.
Christian Bobin died at the age of 71, a month and a half after the publication of an anthology of a thousand pages entitled The different regions of the skyand the last novel published during his lifetime, Red lily of the valley.
He then told AFP: “I love these two labels that are stuck to me: simple at the risk of being naive, and obscure at the risk of being hermetic.”