Regarding Patrice Jean's seventh novel,
Le Parti d'Edgar Winger,
published in April and which was awarded the Hussars prize on June 22, Frédéric Beigbeder estimated in
Le Figaro Magazine
that the writer had risen
"to the level of greatest moralists"
and predicted a future for him as a
"great national classical novelist"
.
Étienne de Montety, director of
Le Figaro littéraire
, for his part, hailed a gaze that
“explores the era and identifies its demons”
.
As for Éric Naulleau (president of the Prix des Hussards), he consecrated in
Marianne
Patrice Jean as
“the most exciting of today's French novelists”
.
Let's stop with the superlatives and come back to the origins.
Who is Patrice Jean?
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