INTERVIEW
Katherine Pancol, successful novelist who publishes "Eugène et moi" in November, has experienced a special spring. She first thought to take advantage of the confinement caused by the coronavirus to read a book. "I was not gone to work, but rather with a huge basket of books to read," said the author, Wednesday morning, at the microphone of Europe 1. She had also published Bed Bug five months earlier .
All of a sudden, her program was turned upside down: "One evening, a message from a very good friend (nicknamed Eugène, editor's note) arrived on my Instagram thread, but whom I don't see very often because she has the moves. She travels all the time, "she continues.
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Eugene, "angry all the time"
“Eugene is angry all the time. In her post, she said that the lockdown was great, that maybe people would finally look at the world, and stop obsessing over their navels. She ended the post with ' open your eyes, you assholes, ”she smiles.
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Then comes the idea of recounting her trip to Mexico that she had made with her friend, when the two young women were 20 years old. The illustrations for the book entitled Eugène et moi, which will be released in November, were produced by Anne Boudart.
Adapted writing
Katerine Pancol, who usually writes novels, had to adapt her writing. "When you write a novel, you go much deeper into the psychology of the characters. There, you have to give clues and things have to go quickly", sums up the novelist, not unhappy to have transformed this confinement into a creative period.