Adrien Gygax, rejoicing at the end

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By: Jean-François Cadet Follow

The Swiss writer Adrien Gygax has just published at Grasset rejoicing for the end. A second book full of simple emotions that presents itself as the posthumous manuscript of a resident in a retirement home.

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In his first novel, he told us about love. From love to 25 years under the Balkan sun and in the alleys of Istanbul. And in his second, he also talks to us about love, but above all, he tells of the life that is going away, and he proposes with it another way of looking at and living the world. A tender, elegant, poetic, sometimes meditative, often contemplative book, which speaks of the approaching death, but which is not macabre, because it speaks at the bottom of old age as a passage towards real life.

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