In the midst of a dispute within his family concerning his father Alain, Anthony Delon announced on Instagram the release of a novel entitled “Bastingage”, published by Fayard, on March 27.
With Bastingage, according to RTL, Anthony Delon ventures into the territory of fiction but many could see signs close to family reality with a toxic love story as a result.
Anthony Delon would depict the destiny of Philippe, his father, a former industrialist.
A dying man weakened by illness whose relationship with his son is complex.
After living in Switzerland, Philippe returned to live in the French countryside, alongside his omnipresent and dedicated personal assistant.
Her attitude is intriguing: she wants money because her father is living his last months... Another coincidence, the character has a half-sister living in Switzerland.
The father adores her, the half-brother, who portrays her as clumsy, perfidious and wielding the art of duplicity...
“Anthony has produced a very beautiful novel, and it is absolutely not a fiction about his father and what he experienced,” defended Fayard CEO Isabelle Saporta.
“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.
On January 25, a guardianship judge placed Alain Delon, 88, very weakened by illness, under judicial protection so that a representative could determine “his medical follow-up”.
Recluse in his property in Douchy, the legendary actor of French cinema is caught in the conflict between his children, who each swear to look after his best interests.
Anthony, 59, and Alain-Fabien Delon, 29, want him to stay in this village.
Anouchka Delon, 33, is pleading for him to be repatriated to Switzerland where, according to her, he would be looked after much better.
In 2019, Alain-Fabien Delon also published an autobiographically inspired novel, “De la race des seigneurs”, where an apprentice actor could not emerge from the shadow of a father admired by all, but tyrannical in private.