Philippe Besson puts himself on stage again (this is not a criticism) in the intimate and nostalgic A summer evening. After Stop with your lies, A certain Paul Darrigrand And Dinner in Montreal, the novelist continues his conversation with the ghosts of his past and returns to a tragedy that occurred in 1985, the summer of his 18th birthday, during a family vacation on the Ile de Ré. There he finds François, Christophe, the summer visitors Alice and Marc, and a newcomer, Nicolas. It is with him that Philippe speaks, exchanges, it is to him that he opens up. There is carefreeness and sunshine in the air. Complicity. Rivalry too. Until one of them disappears one night at a party. What happened ? The mystery, the guilt that accompanies it, will never be lifted. It’s the end of adolescence. And the beginning of adulthood, marked by this wound that never closed. A melancholic novel/memory whose strength lies, even more than in the events recounted, in the states of mind and times deposited on each page.
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