The Promise of the Sea, by Arnaud de La Grange: and the sea and love…. In his latest novel, the journalist delivers his most personal pages.
Gogos believe in postcard decor, poets in the mirror of the soul, but he knows that the ocean is a raging beast that spares no one. As a child, he turned his back on her so as not to see her; as a teenager, he preferred swimming pool water. One day, in London, facing a painting by Turner, he wavered, the floor swayed under his feet: the monster was there in front of him. The immense waves were going to engulf it.