Port franc
Le voilà donc parti pour la Suisse. Enchérissant sans limites, Seymour rafle les œuvres et laisse l’assistance sans voix. Les toiles entreposées dans le port franc de Genève doivent ensuite être expédiées à New York. Mais le seront-elles vraiment ? Car Seymour est imprévisible, il s’affranchit peu à peu de son commanditaire et semble vouloir le doubler.
À quoi joue Seymour, cet anonyme aussi méticuleux qu’effacé qui se retrouve désormais poursuivi par des mafieux, qui séduit des inconnues et détourne des toiles de maîtres ?
Pour son quatrième livre, Manuel Benguigui nous entraîne dans un étonnant roman aux allures de polar cynique, où il interroge subtilement les jeux de rôle qui font la vie sociale.
- Bleue
- Paru le 04/03/2021
- Genre : Littérature française
- 168 pages - 140 x 205 mm
- EAN : 9782715256439
- ISBN : 9782715256439
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Presentation
On a Sunday morning, in Paris, Seymour accepted a strange mission. Following the instructions of Gordji, a rich backer’s, half an art dealer, half a cocaine addict crook, he must go to Geneva to purchase 33 lots of modern paintings of an inestimable value, which are auctioned by the Wittgenstein family… Seymour raises the bid without limitation and leaves the art world present here in doubt in front of this unknown fellow. He doesn’t give explanations and hits the road. He makes the paintings stored in the free port of Genève, a vast warehouse-city for luxurious – ormafioso – merchandises that is out of control and custom formalities. From this place, they must be sent to New York. But will this really happen? Actually, little by little, Seymour is freeing himself from his backer… In Genève he also meets with the young Gretl Wittgenstein, crying in front of a little painting she particularly loves. She doesn’t understand why her parents decided to sell it and she wants to get it back. However Seymour doesn’t have time to be moved, other adventures are waiting for him.
Manuel Benguigui was born in Paris in 1976. He used to work in a art gallery. At Mercure de France, he published Un collectionneur allemand (rights sold: Turkey, Yapi Kredi), Un tableau neigeux and Un bon rabbin.
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