Philippe Djian, see you in ten years
French writer Philippe Djian in studio at RFI (October 2020).
© RFI / Catherine Fruchon-Toussaint
By: Catherine Fruchon-Toussaint
2 min
Philippe Djian is the author of around thirty novels including "37.2 le matin", the series "Doggy Bag", "Impardonnables" (Jean Freustié prize) or even "Oh" (Interallié Prize) ... work is regularly adapted to the cinema of Jean-Jacques Beneix in Paul Verhoven recently.
He is also the lyricist of Stephan Eicher.
His new book "2030" is a novel of anticipation published by Flammarion editions.
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Cover of Philippe Djian's new novel © Flammarion
"One morning, Greg came across a ten-year-old report on the fight, in 2019, of" the young woman with the braids. "He feels caught between Anton, his brother-in-law, for whom he has just falsified the results of a study on a pesticide, and Lucie, her niece, engaged in an ecological struggle. When she introduces him to Vera, her vision of the world is shaken.
Six characters meet in this novel of slight anticipation. is it so that in ten years the world continues its work of degradation? Is it out of laziness, helplessness or selfishness that the members of this family have allowed their lives and the world they inhabit to be damaged? "
(Presentation of Flammarion editions)
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