Ol ivier Bourdeaut is a bit like the Pierre Richard of French publishing.
A bad student, dyslexic, deaf in one ear, this reverse defector ("
I'm a son of a bourgeois, down to the garbage room
," he says) has scoured different professions until trying his hand at that of writer.
After several years of writing, his novel
Waiting for Bojangles
(2016) became an international literary phenomenon with its film and play.
He turned his bad luck into talent.
In
Personal Development
, the author recounts the failures that led him to this success.
A self-portrait as hilarious as it is moving.
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LE FIGARO.
- You don't like autofiction.
Yet you gave in, why?
OLIVIER BOURDEAUT.
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By total lack of choice.
I've always made fun of people who lacked imagination to the point of talking about their own lives.
I was both admiring and disdainful of this process.
However, two weeks after taking refuge in my cabin in Ibiza, after months of writing...
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