At the microphone of Philippe Vandel, writer and screenwriter Olivier Adam on Thursday mentioned a literary environment hostile and competing with the success of television series. This "between-itself" is also the subject in his new book A part of badminton, as well as the theme of social decommissioning.

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Guest of Culture Media, Thursday, the writer and screenwriter Olivier Adam signs a new novel, titled A Badminton Party and published at Flammarion. Follower of social issues, the author of Je vais bien do not worry (Le Dilettante, 1999) and Des vents contraires (Editions de l'Olivier, 2009) portrays, in Part of badminton , the galleys of a writer fallen, forced to go into exile in Brittany because of the high cost of living in Paris.

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"One day or the other we must negotiate with the law of maximum annoyance": from the back cover, Olivier Adam announces the tone of his novel. In Part of Badminton, the narrator, Paul Lerner, experiences a difficult time, polluted by the crisis of adolescence of his children, the infidelity of his wife, the disinterest of the readers for his work but also by the harassment of a fan.

"I forced the line I imagined when I will not sell a book and nobody would talk about me," says Olivier Adam. "I started to wonder: 'What if, at some point, we could not pay the rent and had to go back to Brittany to find a job?'"

A war of egos

In his new book, Olivier Adam also tells a literary milieu more and more fierce. "We have the impression that French literature is no longer dreaming of a big world, perhaps because of the attraction of series that have become a great competition?" Asks the writer, who feels a "hysterization" "between writers.

"It is a milieu where there is a lot of people, collusion and blows," he continues, denouncing, "a way to inflate importance" among writers.

Frédéric Beigbeder and "Ouin-ouin in the country of divorce"

The work of Olivier Adam is so little appreciated by the writer and literary critic Frédéric Beigbeder, that he nicknamed it "Ouin-Ouin in the country of divorce". A taunt that does not reach so Olivier Adam, who has subsequently used this formula in his books. "I found it very funny that he makes fun of me about my ability to always see everything in black", justifies Olivier Adam.

"Once, he even made a false pitch of one of my novels, he imagined what could be the subject of my next novel.It was hilarious.It was inevitably a battered woman, in a HLM, without a job that meets a migrant, who himself has no legs, he did not care about me royally and I found it really funny, "recalls the writer, who does not say he is resentful.