"
I hope that my smile can even be seen behind the mask,
" a reader from Saint-Omer told our colleagues at France Info on Saturday, via a report from France3 Nord Pas-de-Calais.
The object of his delight, the visit to the small neighborhood bookstore L'Atelier des Venterniers in Hervé le Tellier.
The winner of the Prix Goncourt dedicated his award-winning novel to it as well as
The People Who Count
, published by the publisher of the same not attached to the bookstore.
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Initially, the appointment was made for this work produced with the designer member of OuLiPo and OuBaPo, Étienne Lécroart.
Having obtained in the meantime the prestigious literary prize, Hervé Le Tellier found himself signing the two books.
More confidential,
The People Who Count
is presented on the publisher's site as a "
pamphlet at the same time poetic, mischievous and playful, where people are enigmas, our little calculations take on a mysterious magic
".
The new notoriety of the writer came at the right time to defend the work of the small independent house.
The France 3 Nord Pas-de-Calais report addresses readers who are particularly touched by this visit described as "
rare
" and "
exceptional
" for their small town of Saint-Omer.
Author since 1991 of around thirty books but little known to the general public, Hervé le Tellier was consecrated last November 30 by the jury of the Goncourt Prize for his eighth novel
L'Anomalie
.
The novel tells the consequences of a strange event, namely that a Paris-New York flight occurs twice, with the same passengers, a few months apart.
President of the OuLiPo (OUvroir de Litterature POtentielle), he is the first writer in the group to receive the Goncourt Prize.
“You never expect a price like the Goncourt.
First of all, you don't write to have it, and then you can't imagine having it, ”
declared the winner during a videoconference, alongside his editor, Antoine Gallimard.