Anthony Delon's new novel, Bastingage, is published by Fayard editions. The son of Alain and Nathalie Delon spoke widely about the motives of his novel.
Asked about a possible autobiographical inspiration concerning his father in particular, the actor forcefully affirmed that his novel is “pure fiction” “Anthony has produced a very beautiful novel, and it is absolutely not a fiction about his father and what he experienced,” Fayard CEO Isabelle Saporta already told AFP last January. In 2019, Anthony Delon’s brother, Alain-Fabien, also published an autobiographically inspired novel, De la race des seigneurs, where an apprentice actor could not escape the shadow of a father admired by all, but tyrannical in private. “I hear the buzz and I understand it. You can draw everything towards the autobiographical, and the problem when you are a novelist is that you are always read through this prism. But it's unfair for Anthony, who tells something else, a love between a disturbed young woman, shattered by life, whom the hero tries to save for all he can,’ she added.