IN YOUR LIBRARY
It is in the 16th arrondissement of Paris that Dave opens the doors of his home. In his apartment, literary works have a good place. Not fundamentally against a reading light for a train trip, the singer enjoys turning real pages and the smell of old books. For La voix est livre , he has published three autobiographies and a cookbook, unveiled his library (scattered in the apartment) and some anecdotes of life. He assures him moreover: "We are elsewhere when we read, we can not be really unhappy when we are with a good book."
Paul d'Ivoi, big forgotten
"In the song, there are unknown people after their death," says Dave, who sees the same thing happening to writers. "I am always surprised that the French do not know Paul d'Ivoi", a novelist of the late nineteenth century-early twentieth. "It's a contemporary writer from Jules Verne who has written extraordinary books that can be found in paperbacks - they are adventure books, almost for eternal teens." Dave has titles such as The Sowers of Ice , Sergeant Simplet and Miss Mousqueterr , a novel he read at age 16 in Dutch. Today, the singer reads more readily "in English and in French".
Dostoevsky and Kerouac, the taste of exile
Some writers had a geographical influence on the singer, until he left his native Holland. "Dostoevsky is one of those who made me leave, there are people who make you want to travel." This was also the case with Jack Kerouac and his famous On the Road . In the ranks of these writers who give the taste of elsewhere is also the Dutch Cees Nooteboom who wrote Philippe and the others . "All that made me want to go elsewhere Dostoevsky made me shit because of Crime and Punishment, I took a little for Raskolnikov and I wanted to try things that were forbidden".
Children's books "at the bottom of the sea"
Party of the Netherlands by boat, Dave arrives in France. The boat continues its course without the singer has landed all his books. "I left the boat because the boy with whom I had left Holland and I was passionately in love, was not gay," says the singer, who has returned regularly with hope on the boat to see his friend. The ship ended its run "in a rock on the Red Sea", basically sending much of Dave's childhood books that had not been landed yet. "I still had a little," adds the artist.
Science fiction
Science fiction is a genre that has been very important to the singer. Titles of Stephen King enthroned on the shelves, including his favorite The Dark Tower . "I had a very long science fiction period in my life, I do not regret it, many of the things I've read in science fiction books have come, even serious, horrible things." Among his favorite books, the singer also quotes Frank Herbert's Dune .