They were only four.
It was finally Jean-Baptiste Del Amo who won the 20th prize for the novel Fnac for
The Son of Man
(Gallimard).
He faced Louis-Philippe Dalembert with
Milwaukee Blues
(Sabine Wespieser), Patrice Franceschi with
If there is only one left
(Grasset) and the American Joyce Maynard with
Where the happy people lived
(Philippe Rey).
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The novel which explores the question of the transmission of violence from father to son in a hostile and disturbing nature has been warmly noticed by Le Figaro Littéraire.
In the August 26 issue, academician Patrick Grainville had these words of praise:
“There are many magnificent scenes such as the river bath of mother and son or the complicity of father and offspring on a car track. bumper.
Brief clearings in a mass of darkness and sticky fears to be cut with a knife. "
Social and family determinism
In an interview with Le Figaro, Jean-Baptiste Del Amo explains having created an open-air camera in order to question the notion of fatality.
“My characters often struggle with a form of social, family, psychological determinism. Quite blindly, they sense their fetters. They try to break free from it, but it is often difficult for them to get rid of it. How, for example, can behavioral patterns be found in a family from one generation to another despite the silence, the secrets? This is a question that I wanted to pursue with this book. ”
Jean-Baptiste Del Amo is the author of novels and short stories, including
Une education libertine
crowned with the 2009 Goncourt prize for the novel,
Pornographia
, 2013 Sade prize and
Animal kingdom
, a work dealing with the enslavement of nature and animals, prize of the Inter book 2017.
The Son of Man
is his fifth novel. He will receive his reward at the inauguration of the Salon Fnac Livres on Thursday, September 30.
