Tarbes. Philippe Pourtalet: “The meeting crosses my literary work”

Love is obviously a source of inspiration for Philippe Pourtalet. Furthermore, A strong feeling that the writer Bigourdan approaches step by step, starting with the beginning: the meeting. However, A theme that made her heart beat from the birth of his autistic daughter. Therefore, who gave birth, in 2013, a first novel on “the meeting of an atypical child, extraordinary parenting in the face of disability”. Similarly, Six years later. he told his meeting with his grandparents and paid tribute to them, like a duty of family memory, for having allowed him to “rise” in childhood and to have contributed “to make him the man he has become”.

From her to us by going through him – Tarbes. philippe pourtalet: "the meeting

After six more years of gestation. reflection, Philippe Pourtalet revealed in the middle of tarbes. philippe pourtalet: “the meeting spring his third part open on the meeting, first with oneself, based on his feelings. Without looking at the navel, quite the contrary.

Because if he evokes. through the meeting with the feeling of love (from discovery to the breakup before “a new spring), his sufferings and his wounds- even his fears and his anxieties- it is to better open up to others. Because. according to the author, it is by having the courage to look” in the rear view mirror, in the dead angles “that a writer can transcribe” a true word. Which can in turn identify over the pages. recognize yourself in these writings and thus “develop your creativity and its own story”.

Couples to verses

In order for these feelings to resonate in everyone. to move from intimate to the universality of human relations, Philippe Pourtalet has made the deliberate choice of a free writing between poetic prose and poetry, tarbes. philippe pourtalet: “the meeting with a touch of sensuality and a form of musicality highlighting a certain reality. And for the partition to be complete, he joined the talents of the illustrator Bagnérais Henri-Pierre Barnet. A meeting, a sensitive dialogue where the harmony of words and images are played out of your life fragments. To discover in this book available from the editor Arcane 17 (22 rue Abbé Torné) or on order in bookstores.