Lie With Me

For a long time, I tried to write down words about his disappearance. I found a lot. I even classified them in alphabetical order, if you want to know: “abandonment,” “absence,” “death,” “departure,” “dissolution,” “erasure,” “escape,” “extinction,” “flight,” “loss,” “retreat,” “vanishing,” “withdrawal,”—the other ones I forgot.

A Character from a Novel, an intimate portrait of Emmanuel Macron during his presidential campaign

Who are you trying to convince? He continues: In His Brother, the hero is outright called Thomas Andrieu. Are you going to tell me that it’s a coincidence? I stop protesting. To deny it would be to insult his intelligence. He drives home the point: And in A Boy from Italy, you tell the story of a double life, a man who can’t choose between men and women. Your novels were like pieces of a puzzle. They were enough to assemble a picture that made sense.