Yves Bichet

Indocile

Dans ce roman d’apprentissage, Yves Bichet explore ce qui se joue à la sortie de l’adolescence : l’ivresse de l’engagement, la quête d’absolu et le besoin de s’accomplir dans le tumulte amoureux. Tourner le dos à l’enfance c’est parfois aussi affronter la guerre… Théo doit soutenir Antoine revenu blessé du conflit algérien. Il va aimer en secret la mère de son ami puis rencontrer Mila, une jeune femme mystérieusement marquée par la foudre qui le mènera, malgré lui, vers la résistance civique. Tournant le dos à son pays, il laissera derrière lui l’enfance pour plonger dans le vertige de la clandestinité.

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Paru le 31/08/2017
Genre : Littérature française

272 pages - 140 x 205 mm
EAN : 9782715245778
ISBN : 9782715245778

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Awards

Long-listed Prix Femina 2017
Long-listed Prix Renaudot 2017

Presentation

September, 1961. Théodore, 18 years old, is regularly visiting his friend Antoine on the army hospital in the Lyon region. He speaks with him, gets him to listen to music. Antoine never answers, and for good reason! He is in coma after being injured in Algeria. At the same time, Théo met Mila, a young mysterious woman: androgynous figure, shaved head, a long scar around her neck… A little like a funambulist, and like a magician. They fell in love immediately, with youthful energy and idealism. But Theo must go to the army then to war. He deserts: this conscientious objection is an offence and he is risking prison. From Lyon to the South of France, from the Paladru Lake to Switzerland, his escape is just beginning…

Yves Bichet used to be a mason and an agricultural worker for more than twenty years. He now dedicates himself to writing. He has written several novels, among them La Part animale, L’Homme qui marche (shortlisted for Femina Prize 2014) and L’été contraire (shortlisted for Renaudot Prize 2015, translated in Italian language (Bompiani)).

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