Immerse yourself in the life of another, apprehend the way he looks at his daily life and our existence, if only for a moment.
This cape is not the one the actor wears before going up on the stage of a theatre, but it is the outfit of the penman.
The one who was once called "literary negro", at a time when the reference of the 19th century to Alexandre Dumas and his ghost writer Auguste Maquet was still allowed.
The penmen write the stories of others in the first person and they disappear behind celebrities of song, television stars, great sportsmen or politicians in search of literature.
“I very quickly demystified this chameleon work,
confides to
Figaro
the writer Dan Franck.
I considered myself a technician, an interchangeable character, who found it normal not to sign.
The screenwriter of the series
Marseille,
on Netflix, wrote 62 books as a penman, memoirs of the former president of…
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