INTERVIEW
Yann Queffélec and his brother Tanguy did not see each other for 39 years. It's a text ("I'm going to operate, it's serious, come see me") that will change everything and lead the eldest - Yann Queffélec - to come to the bedside of his brother. The new book of the novelist, Tomorrow is another night , tells his reunion, the time of a night. A true story about a family story. For the writer, the family is also "the breeding ground for all the most beautiful, purest and most toxic feelings", as he explains in Media Culture on Europe 1.
"I become a character in the long run"
"In a story, you remember something that happened, in a novel you go to something you do not know anything about," says Yann Queffélec. He chose the story, embellished with some fictional fantasies. "I invented the character of a nurse," he says. With Tomorrow is another night , the writer tells himself and reveals an intimate part of himself and his family. "I'm interested in myself, not megalomaniac delirium, but because I become a character, in the long run," says the winner of the 1985 Goncourt Prize for Les Noces barbares .
"We were not really angry or confused"
At the microphone of Europe 1, Yann Queffélec returns on this distance of 39 years. While they were respectively 18 and 15 years old and dreamed about a world tour in two-person sailing, Yann Queffélec fell in love with a woman. "Then I stopped going to the projects that bound me and my brother," says the writer. "We were not really angry or scrambled, we just do not say what we have on our heart," he says.