Daily journalist Releasenovelist, Mathieu Lindon sometimes mentioned in his books certain friendships that disappeared too quickly, he who was close to Michel Foucault (what love meansPrix Médicis 2011) and Hervé Guibert (Hervelino, 2020). The writer is the son of publisher Jérôme Lindon (1925-2001), who was for a long time at the head of the famous Éditions de Minuit, a house in whose shadow he “grew up in a vision that was both legendary and daily “. His parents’ friends were named Samuel Beckett, Marguerite Duras, Claude Simon or Alain Robbe-Grillet. Both admiring and critical, Mathieu Lindon recounts his father and their relationship in An archive, a story as disjointed as it is filled with anecdotes – even if the author recognizes in these emotional memories to have “an unusual capacity to be aware of nothing”. A fine exercise in remembrance and admiration, despite a wobbly style which at times sends the reader into the loop.
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