“The story of 1995, how much longer will it take before it really emerges? » Martin, the narrator ofFall 1995, immediately draws up a list of everything that happened at that time, but two specific events will shake up his trajectory: the failure of the Yes vote in the referendum of October 30 and the end of his relationship with Sophie, his lover. The young man oscillates between hope for the country to be born and melancholy because of the departure of his partner, unable to anchor himself anywhere. What we clearly perceive throughout the pages of this first novelistic foray by Dominique Lebel is his passion for the political world (this former activist has already worked in the spheres of power) and his unconditional love for the words of others (he is a literary columnist forNews). He combines them here in an elegant and moving manner in a period portrait wandering between childhood and adulthood, civic commitment and intoxication in love. In short, a page of history imbued with a magnificent extra soul.
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