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Thomas Fersen or the love of enchanted words

2023-02-21T15:19:48.558Z


PORTRAIT – After eleven albums, started thirty years ago with Le bal des oiseaux, Thom as Fersen released his first novel, God on Earth. An original literary object, in verse, faithful to the style and the whimsical, humorous and singular universe of the artist.


A bat in love with an umbrella, a bee attacking a lion, seated at a café.

For thirty years and the release of his first album,

Le Bal des Oiseaux

, singer Thomas Fersen has been writing poetry.

Like a fabulist, he stages eclectic characters.

Throughout his eleven studio albums, we also come across an undertaker with fangs, a seller of reptile mules, an old Egyptian mummy.

His lyrics are chiseled, rich with tasty words and rhymes.

A unique style found in

God on

Earth

(Éditions de L'Iconoclaste), his first novel, released on February 9.

In the form of a diary in verse, this learning novel recounts the adventures of a young boy in Paris in the 1960s and 1970s, from primary school until after his military service.

"It's a unique literary object, a long song of 274 pages

," says Thomas Fersen, sitting in the dining room of his beautiful house in the 20th arrondissement of Paris.

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Source: lefigaro

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