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I always have the impression that I write the same book.

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I write in the most classical French because this form is necessary for my novels: to translate the murky, floating, unsettling atmosphere I wanted them to have, I had to discipline it into the clearest, most traditional language possible.

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Because I find writing painful, I try to get it over with as fast as possible. But I write every day, or I lose the thread.

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As a writer, one is always a little blind to what one writes.

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Writing is a strange and solitary activity. There are dispiriting times when you start working on the first few pages of a novel. Every day, you have the feeling you are on the wrong track. This creates a strong urge to go back and follow a different path. It is important not to give in to this urge but to keep going.

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At the beginning, I experienced writing as a sort of constraint. Starting so young as a writer is pitiable: it's beyond your powers; you have to lay bare things that are very heavy, and you don't have the means for that.

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Really, I prefer not to read my early books. Not that I don't like them, but I don't recognize myself anymore, like an old actor watching himself as a young leading man.

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In the end, we are all determined by the place and the time in which we were born.

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That's the miracle of fiction. I use it to spray on certain moments or places from my youth.

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I've always had the wish, the nostalgia to be able to write detective novels. At heart, the principal themes of detective novels are close to the things that obsess me: disappearance, the problems of identity, amnesia, the return to an enigmatic past.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Novelist

Born: July 30th, 1945

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