2023-12-05 09:00:00
No, we will not celebrate here Edgar Morin, who, at 102 spring, continues to publish at least one pamphlet every year; as an elixir of youth, Actes Sud even announces the publication, on April 24, of the manuscript lost in 1983 (found in 2006 and reworked since then) of what was then to constitute the 3rd volume of the La Method series. Let’s instead celebrate his cadets who would have turned 100 this year. It’s amazing what 1923 saw the birth of talented authors, “resurrected” these days. Anniversaries, a selling point, certainly, but, in this case, not sure that the publishers are expecting amazing results, it is above all a question of celebrating these writers who made the heyday of their house, the recognition of the belly somehow…
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Thus Robert Sabatier, who died in 2012, the successful author of Swedish Matches (1969), Three Mint Lollipops (1972), and Wild Hazelnuts (1974), a tri-millionaire trilogy that Albin Michel, his historic publisher, published in a single volume with an unpublished preface by CEO Francis Esménard. In the process, Albin Michel, decidedly very “heritage”, pays tribute to Bernard Clavel with the reissue of two flagship novels by the prolific Jurassian, L’Espagne (1959) and Le Soleil des Morts (1998), as well as to Gilles Lapouge , also with two titles, I write you from Brazil… and Les Folies Koenigsmark. The philosopher René Girard would have been 100 years old on December 25. As a Christmas present, Éditions de L’Herne are reissuing the “dark” Anorexia and Mimetic Desire (2008) and the subtle Geometries of Desire (2010). He too would have been 100 years old this year, yet the author of Le Diable au corps, who died at 20, will always remain this serious Young Man in the Roaring Twenties (Robert Laffont), as Chloé Radiguet, Raymond’s niece, tells us. Radiguet, and Julien Cendres in their biography.
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We could also cite Morris, the father of Lucky Luke (Gallimard, Dupuis), or the thriller Joseph Bialot (Série Noire). Published in 1978 in the Super Noire collection (n°110), before being reprinted in Série Noire (n°1749) a year later, Joseph Bialot’s Le Salon du Prêt-à-Saigner received the Grand Prix de Littérature policewoman. Remember that Joseph Bialot is a figure in the revival of French crime fiction in the 1980s, alongside Jean-Patrick Manchette, Jean Vautrin and even ADG. Note also the publication by La Manufacture of books of It is in winter that the days lengthen, the author’s autobiographical account of his deportation to Auschwitz and his return from the concentration camp. You have noticed ? Not a woman in this shower of tributes. “I lived on art, I lived on love, […] Why, why, Lord, Ah, why do you reward me like this?” Callas, born… in 1923, could have sung.
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