At the beginning of the academic year, the author’s multiple award-winning story, Nothing stands in the way of the night will be adapted for the Comédie-Française.
How do you feel when you see it? Nothing disturbs the night adapted to the Comédie-Française.
I am very happy, but at the same time a little feverish.
What do you have to do with this text?
An ambiguous report. I wrote it in a kind of emergency after my mother died. And then I held her. I had to dive back into it to adjust.
What is your main character trait?
Hypersensitivity. It is both a strength and a weakness.
Which one are you least proud of?
A small paranoid tendency, which I fight bravely.
The one you hate in others.
Bad faith.
Your anti-stress?
Walk wherever I am.
Your green gesture.
I try to limit my waste. I got into most of it.
Your currency.
Whoever buys a piano buys a piano.
To write, you need…
Quiet. And don’t do a thousand things at once.
I like to mix people, universes. family and friends
An adjective that fits you.
I don’t know which one to choose, because I often get the impression of a little bit of everything and vice versa.
What would you take on a desert island?
An old boombox with my favorite songs.
The three basics of your wardrobe.
Jeans, sweater, boots. I take off my clothes in the summer.
The ideal dinner cast at your home.
I like to mix people, universes. Family and friends.
Music in your life?
Mahler’s fifth symphony, for which I am writing a text for the National d’Île-de-France Orchestra.
A meeting that marked you.
Artist Fabien Verdier, whom I met through the show A large workshopOn France Inter.
A childhood heroine?
The orange cow, on a Per Castor album that I adored. The story of the runaway cow…
When did you feel like a writer?
A few years ago. It took me a while.
What is your fancy?
Live from writing. Without constraints and without delays.
Fashion that makes you angry.
Constant and Anglo-Saxon use of the verb “share” in social networks. The meaning of the verb is lost…
Your favorite TV series?
I’m just graduating Mare of Easttown, which I liked very much. And I loved season 2 In therapy.
An important application.
City cartographer.
What would you do if you weren’t a writer?
I would like to have another life to study medicine and become a psychiatrist.
“Nothing stands in the way of the night. episodes,” adapted by Elsa Lepouvre and Delphine de Vigan, Sept. 22 at the Comédie-Française in Paris. Latest published book: Children are Kings, Éditions Gallimard, Folio collection, 368 pages, €8.40.
Source: Le Figaro
