Franz-Olivier Giesbert signs with "Nothing that a beast" a disconcerting book which alerts, by means of an at least original intrigue, on the animal condition.

The journalist and writer, guest Thursday of the show "It feels good", explains at the microphone of Anne Roumanoff to have wanted to try his hand at horror literature.

INTERVIEW

How can an animal activist effectively alert and mobilize public opinion?

It is a rather surprising answer given by Franz-Olivier Giesbert in his new book, 

Nothing but a beast

, which he presents on Thursday in the program 

It feels good

.

In this novel, his main character will, both out of personal convictions and out of unreasonable love for a married woman, allow himself to be imposed by the couple he would like to separate the living conditions of an intensively farmed pig.

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"The story is simple. The guy's name is Charles. He has just divorced. He is cowardly, he is weak, and he lets himself be engaged in a story with a married couple, where he will live like a pig", summarizes Franz-Olivier Giesbert, who also imagined a terrible profile for Patrick, the man of the torturing couple.

"To scare, to make people laugh, and to make people think"

"Patrick is a bit crazy," confirms the author.

"So yes, it's horrible. I was very proud to have found this story. And then, when you write, you get carried away."

Franz-Olivier Giesbert explains that he wanted to try out "a genre and make a horror book".

"I like to write books that are always a little risky, in very different genres," he observes.

"There, it is a book of horror. I took myself for Stephen King for a while", smiles the journalist and novelist, quoting the greatest American author of horror.

"The story is a Stephen King thing: a horror thing to scare, to make people laugh, and to make people think."

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, he is not kind to the authors of French thrillers. "I have a lot of esteem and admiration for this author, not so much for the books made by his imitators or his French pasticheurs, which also sell very well, with things a little supra-natural", slice- he does. "I'm not into it at all. I'm really into a basic thing. Kind of like Stephen King." The interested parties will recognize themselves.