It is at his home, on the Butte Montmartre, that the winner of the 2020 Goncourt Prize receives.
Alongside the author of
L'Anomalie
- very literary novel, daring, experimental, but captivating - which has sold 1 million copies, a friend of twenty years, Pascal Fioretto, who has just pastiche the famous bestseller. In Le Tellier's novel, a plane and eight characters landed at two different times, and their doubles ended up meeting and confronting each other. In
L'Anomalie du train 006,
Fioretto imagines the same thing, but in the “writers' train”, direction Brive, where, exceptionally, the Goncourt must be awarded. The opportunity for Fioretto to pastich Emmanuel Carrère, Aurélie Valognes, the champion of the silly titles (
"She had to buy the dictionary of expressions",
says Fioretto
),
Joël Dicker,
Sylvain Tesson, Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Virginie Despentes and….
Hervé Le Tellier himself, in the process of designing his new novel via a mysterious software.
A hilarious book,
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