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Frédéric Beigbeder: “A cold affair”

2024-03-08T16:07:35.486Z

Highlights: Frédéric Beigbeder: “A cold affair”. In his new novel, “Cold Case’, Alexandre Labruffe defrosts his Korean wife's uncle, like an Inspector Columbo who also improvises as a Freudian therapist and Parisian shaman. Any event that touches, directly or indirectly, a novelist will become, one day or another, a novel. Stay away from these vampires if you don't want to be sucked into their works.


CHRONICLE - In his new novel, “Cold Case”, Alexandre Labruffe defrosts his Korean wife's uncle, like an Inspector Columbo who also improvises as a Freudian therapist and Parisian shaman.


Any event that touches, directly or indirectly, a novelist will become, one day or another, a novel.

Stay away from these vampires if you don't want to be sucked into their works.

Let's take the example of Alexandre Labruffe, an experimental novelist with a humorous tendency.

After bringing gas stations into literature, then narrating the beginnings of Covid in Wuhan and the end of his father in the Landes, here he sets out in the footsteps of a frozen uncle in Toronto in 1971.

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Having met her in Biarritz in 2019, I can testify that Alexandre's wife is a highly romantic creature.

His father's brother, Kim Sang-Young, 20, was found dead of hypothermia in the garbage room of his psychiatric hospital in 1971. Labruffe could not resist the temptation to write about him because frozen uncles don't roam the streets, especially if they are South Korean, in Canada.

What was this dead man doing in the middle of a blizzard?

There was material for a story there.

Its title,

Cold Case

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Source: lefigaro

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