Miss Figaro.
- If you had to describe
The Decision
in two sentences?
Karine Tuil.-
The portrait of a great counter-terrorism investigating judge who has to make two decisions: one will have an impact on her private life, the other on the nation's security.
What did you have in mind while writing it?
Show that you never know who you have in front of you, that you are always wrong: doubt, error are part of life.
And tell the destiny of a powerful woman who sought to control everything in her life, before giving in to a loving impulse.
What is your main character trait?
Intellectual curiosity and willpower.
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Which one are you the least proud of?
Anxiety.
The one you hate in others?
Social contempt and arrogance.
Your anti-stress thing?
Take baths.
Your green gesture?
Avoid taking baths.
An adjective that suits you?
Sensitive.
Your currency ?
"Where there are no more men, strive to be a man."
To write, you need…
Conflict.
On a desert island, what would you take
?
In Search of Lost Time,
by Marcel Proust.
The three basics of your wardrobe?
Jeans, sweater, boots.
The cast of an ideal dinner at your place?
Karl Marx and Groucho Marx.
The three basics of your wardrobe?
Jeans, sweater, boots
The gift you often give?
Diptyque candles.
Notebooks published by Gallimard or collections of poems: Celan, Darwich, Jabès, Amichaï, Akhmatova.
Music in your life?
The wind blowing in the mountains.
The book that accompanies you?
The Dying Beast
by Philip Roth.
A fashion that annoys you?
Social networks.
A meeting that marked you?
The wounded soldiers returning from Afghanistan whom I met while writing
L'Insouciance.
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When did you feel like a writer?
When I met writers I admired and we talked about work.
A childhood heroine?
Yentl, in the book by Isaac Bashevis Singer.
Your luxury?
Write poetry.
Your favorite series?
Transparent,
by Joey Soloway, the story of a father who decides to change sex.
Your Proust madeleine?
My mother's orange blossom cakes.
What would you have done if you hadn't been a novelist?
Dancer in the Batsheva Dance Company of Ohad Naharin.
Human Things,
a novel recently adapted for the cinema by Yvan Attal.
The Decision
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