Born in Paris on April 11, 1922, died on June 7, 1991, the author of
Un singe en hiver
leaves behind him the image of a whimsical author and a poignant and melancholy work.
Back on the journey of a disenchanted poet.
"
The truth is that my work does not respond to a need, nor to a very deep vocation."
He never wrote except to please his friends.
L'Europe buissonnière
is dedicated to André Fraigneau;
Julien Guernec and Michel Déon are thanked there.
The bar man needs pillars.
Marcel Aymé is his tutor.
They met in a bookstore, had a drink at La Rhumerie Martiniquaise.
One day, carried away by their conversation, they got on a bus before realizing, on getting off at the terminus, that neither of them had any reason to take it.
The same taste for fantasy unites them.
Twenty years his senior, the author of Le
Passe-muraille
considers Antoine to be a kind of spiritual son.
He will devote a long series to it in
La Parisienne
and will pass…
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