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The Goncourt 2019 prize was awarded Monday, November 4 to Jean-Paul Dubois, 69, for All men do not live the world the same way . This is the story of a common man incarcerated for a crime that is unknown.
More than a novel, it is a literary manifesto against all forms of injustice that the Academy Goncourt crowned. Incarcerated in a cell of six square meters, Paul, the protagonist of the book, shares with us in camera the memories of his life before, until the day when everything collapses.
With All Men do not live the world the same way (edit L'Olivier), Jean-Paul Dubois allows us to enter the life and internal revolt of a steward incarcerated for two years in the provincial prison of Montreal. In contrast to his fellow inmate, an Angel Hells convicted of murder, the convictions, moods and frailties of Paul Hansen, 44, are slowly but surely appearing on the horizon.
Then appears his happy childhood in Toulouse, with a rigid father, a pastor of Danish origin, and his mother cinephile and libertarian. We witness his forced exile in Canada after the divorce of his parents, his job for 26 years of superintendent in the residence The Excelsior, happy life with his companion Winona. It is the story of a modest life and all normal, until the moment the spell falls on him and the door of prison is closed.
Thirst for freedom and justice
A story that is both dramatic and elegant, tender and soaked in a bittersweet and bittersweet humor. On 256 pages, we remain in the company of Paul, his love for ordinary people, his thirst for freedom and justice, his revolt against the humiliation of a condemnation felt as unfair.
Born in Toulouse in 1950, Jean-Paul Dubois studied sociology before turning first to journalism and then literature. Author of fifteen novels published, the former sixty-eight and convinced atheist pierced the public with Kennedy and me , winner of the France Télévisions 1996 and adapted for film by Sam Karmann, before conquering literary criticism with A life French , prize Femina 2004. Sensitive to the balance of power and social pressures, Dubois poses in his writings often a glance warned and at the same time disillusioned on the current society.