From the flamboyant universe of the “Twin Flowers” to the intimate duel of “Reading kills”, there was only one step. A work, and a great challenge. Two years later, Philippe Nicolas returns to the scene of the crime to display his inspirational features. Its contrasts. And, implicitly, for the most discerning, his intimate questions about the act of writing.
The previous work of this Nancy native spread through 450 pages of an exploded universe of lights and sounds around New York. The astonishing object “Reading kills” of a few hundred pages that he offers this year at the Book on the Place in Nancy (from September 8 to 10) seems destined to attract all the more strong as the subject focuses on a form of mystery.
Obviously, the author has fun playing with the intelligence of his reader, but impossible to summarize too much before, at the risk of “spoiler” the subject of this juice of inventiveness, whose form recalls the message of a pack of cigarettes. Nothing innocent: here we touch on the theme of purchase, the freedom to consume toxic substances, to assume one’s individual and informed choices.
This concentrate of an incredibly fertile imagination should delight anyone who delves into the mystery of the pleasure of the parallel acts of reading and writing. This invisible link between sender-receiver, writer-reader wanders along the banks of consent (hence the allusion to the pack of cigarettes knowingly bought by consumers).
“The work too much? »
In a style nourished by a writing as lively as it is imaginative or literary, Philippe Nicolas squarely promises the rapid death of his reader. Worse, the act of homicide has already started. But shhh… The investigation is in progress around this fight to the death where the reader finds himself in a triple role of detective, victim and murderer. The simple story of this statement gives an overview of the imaginative twists and turns of the author, whose career is as rich as it is atypical.
This former enarque may have traveled the world, advised ministers and TV channel bosses , created start-ups, enjoyed diplomacy at the UN, he fundamentally questions what the author is an author for. Why write? Why read? In the balance between the work of the solitude of writing and the final pleasure, the pleasure takes over, lets Philippe Nicolas break through, determined to do it again as a result. The murder weapon? A book. And a question: “Hasn’t the reader acquired the work of believing too quickly that reading proceeded from a unilateral act without consequence? »
At 55, the author, whose family lived in Pont-Saint-Vincent (54) questioned himself in his previous work on the same foundations. “Do we write to find out who we are? “he said to the Book on the Square 2021. “I’m not far from thinking that we do it not to know, on the contrary”. Two years later, the mystery continues.
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