Book: a writer's life, according to Oscar Coop-Phane

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French novelist Oscar Coop-Phane. © JF Paga

By: Pascal Paradou

In his 6th novel titled Broken Pieces of a Thing, Oscar Coop-Phane observes his own life as an author, and questions the life of a writer today with a certain humor.

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" I wanted to write by snobbery, to do like dead men ," he says from the first page of his autobiographical novel, between Berlin and Saint-Germain-des-Prés.

→ Broken pieces of a thing, by Oscar Coop-Phane, was published by Grasset editions.

To find out more : He is part of the Sans-Plomb agency, a collective of three writers who meet around a requirement: to make their place in words.

His first novel Zénith-Hôtel (Finitude), released in March 2012, won the Prix de Flore.

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In "Broken Pieces of a Thing", Oscar Coop-Phane gives himself up in fragments, thus mixing memories of different ages - from his childhood, his adolescence, his life as a man. Grasset

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