2023-11-16 14:00:17
CRITICISM – During a night at the Guimet Museum dedicated to Asian arts, the writer found his people.
“No doubt it was curious, at the end of several months marked by the boredom of confinement and the cessation of the curfew, to ask to be locked up somewhere, even if only for one night, in this case at Guimet MuseumPlace d’Iéna, 16th arrondissement», announces Jean-Luc Coatalem in the first pages ofA room at the Mekong Hotel recalling the principle of the collection “My night at the museum”, where his story takes place.
The paradox worsens when we know that the writer is drawn towards distant horizons, beautiful escapes and “the taste of running away» which was transmitted to him in particular by an officer father during exotic assignments. However, the author of Indochinese suite or Last King of Angkor is obviously not in unfamiliar territory in this museum dedicated to Asian arts, and the imposed exercise of nocturnal seclusion will transform under his pen into a journey full of surprises and digressions.
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