Antoine Charbonneau-Demers, a boy like no other

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Antoine Charbonneau-Demers, Quebec writer in studio at RFI (October 2020).

© RFI / Catherine Fruchon-Toussaint

By: Catherine Fruchon-Toussaint

31 min

Winner in Canada of the prestigious Robert-Cliche Prize for Coco, his first novel, Antoine Charbonneau-Demers is, at age 26, a new strong voice in Quebec literature.

A graduate of the Conservatoire d'art dramatique de Montréal, he also pursues an approach in the performing arts.

His second novel Good Boy has just been published in France, published by Arthaud.

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French cover of the novel "Good Boy" © Arthaud

"Here, anyway, I could die right away on the sidewalk, and no one would come and bend over my body.

No one.

My family is an eight hour drive away;

the pigeons will have eaten me up before she has time to disembark.

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A student, arrived from his distant province, a young man explores the big city and tries to discover his identity there.

This raw, candid and poetic learning novel is that of the dreams of a generation confronted with sex, desire and love in the anonymity of a large metropolis.

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