Voyage avec Vila-Matas
Dans le train qui l’emmène vers un festival littéraire, Anne Serre a emporté un livre d’Enrique Vila-Matas. Soudain, l’auteur espagnol est là, assis à côté d’elle. Heureuse coïncidence ou fruit de son imagination? Elle entame avec lui une conversation qu’on dirait commencée depuis longtemps… Plus tard, ils seront voisins de chambre dans un hôtel où l’on croisera aussi Anna Magnani… Tout cela est-il bien réel?
Dans Voyage avec Vila-Matas, Anne Serre prend un malin plaisir à «manipuler» son lecteur, sous les auspices d’un maître en la matière. Avec ce texte jubilatoire, elle nous parle du pouvoir de la littérature et livre aussi un autoportrait singulier.
- Bleue
- Paru le 03/01/2017
- Genre : Littérature française
- 144 pages - 140 x 205 mm
- EAN : 9782715244566
- ISBN : 9782715244566
Foreign Rights
Travelling With Vila-Matas
Rights sold
Espagne
Presentation
At the end of November in 2015, Anne Serre finds herself on a train from Paris to Montauban to go to a literary festival. Up to that point, nothing is out of the ordinary since she is indeed an author. She is equipped for the trip with a book by Enrique Vila-Matas that she is reading feverously. Then all of a sudden, the Spanish author is there, sitting next to her; is this a happy coincidence or a figment of her imagination? Anne Serre strikes up a conversation with him, giving the impression that the discussion began a long time ago… Later, as luck would have it, they are staying in rooms right next to each other in the same hotel. But is this all real? It becomes difficult to decipher the truth from invention. While also in the same hotel, Anne Serre comes across Ana Magnani…
Anne Serre takes pleasure in surprising her readers and potentially even “manipulating” them. Auspiciously through Vila-Matas, the author becomes a master in her own right! With this joyous and funny text, Anne Serre evokes the power of literature and gives her readers a truly unique auto-portrait.
Anne Serre is the author of a dozen books including Le narrateur (English rights sold to New Directions), Les débutants and Petite table, sois mise !.
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