Find the 22nd edition of the Literary Back to Cap Ferret which will take place on Place du Mimbeau. On this occasion, you will have the opportunity to meet renowned authors and you will be able to ask all your questions about your favorite readings.
Thursday August 21 – 6 p.m.
Clermont-Tonnerre Adelaide – I wanted to live (Grasset Edition)
Former student of the École normale supérieure, Adélaïde de Clermont-Tonnerre has been a journalist and novelist, a member since 2008 of the Jury of the Prix de la Closerie des Lilas, and that of the Prix Françoise Sagan, of which she was the first winner in 2010 for her novel Fourrure, awarded four other prizes. His latest novel, I wanted to liveis published by Grasset.
No need to be a follower of Dumas to discover and love this liberated, fair and endearing Milady, an ideal figure in today’s developments. I wanted to live is a novel of exceptional efficiency, in turn sad, joyful, free, cavalcadant, of rare strength and emotion.
Céline Servais-Picord – The particles were in the air (Herodios)
Living in Normandy, Céline Servais-Picord works in a long short hiking guides publishing house, where she opens the ways to compostela pilgrims. After exploring the ambivalence of initiatory practices of African healers in Offshore, published in the new Attila in 2021, she darkens in The particles were in the airat Hérodios editions, to humorously portray our society which thinks itself freed from beliefs, and undermines some totems of the time.
The particles were in the air is a creaky philosophical tale that exposes a simplistic and apparently harmless system of thought, which largely irrigates the world of companies and the whole of society.
Joseph Incardona – The world is tired (finitude)
A writer, screenwriter and director, Joseph Incardona, born in Lausanne from an Italian father and a Swiss mother, lived in Paris and Bordeaux before settling in Geneva. Author of a dozen novels and two plays, he is also a comic book screenwriter and received the public prize at the International Film Film Film in Liège in 2014 for his film Milky Way. After the success of his novel the subtraction of possibilities, he publishes this year The world is tiredé, still with the Bordeaux publisher Finitude.
Through a singular destiny, Joseph Incondarda revisited, in The world is tiredthe myth of the mermaid and gives us to see a humanity in the process of losing its soul.
Philippe Besson – President of the Literary Back to school– Talk to you my son (Julliart)
Author of more than twenty novels, some of whom have been adapted to the cinema or the theater, Philippe Besson, from Barbezieux-Saint-Hilaire, in Charente, is also a screenwriter and playwright. Winner of several literary prizes, he was also a literary critic and television host.
Talk to you about my sonpublished this year at Julliard, is an autobiographical text focused on the experience of a parent confronted with the suffering of his child.
Jean-Luc Schilling – In defense of Bordeaux wines (Le Cherche Midi)
A graduate of the Faculty of Oenology of Bordeaux, Jean-Luc Schilling was a time corresponding to Tokyo of a big French daily newspaper before becoming adviser in development strategy in France and abroad. Living between Paris and the Gironde, he comes to present his book In defense of Bordeaux wines, published at the Cherche-Midi.
In defense of Bordeaux winespublished at the Cherche-Midi, with the participation of Jean-Paul Kauffman, was born out of an exasperation, that of hearing the same litanies, always more caricatured, and less and less informed, on the wine of Bordeaux.
Friday August 22 – 6 p.m.
Basile Panurgias– The Novel of Vassilis (Séguier)
Of Greek origin, born in Paris, twice a finalist of the Prix de Flore, for Soho and Pinkie-Pinkie, Basile Panurgias studied the history of art at the University of New York, at the Institut Courtauld in London and the Michelet Institute in Paris, and was assistant director, sailor and lecturer, before devoting himself to writing and journalism. He lives between Paris and Copenhagen.
Eleventh novel by the author, The Novel of Vassilisat Séguier editions, tells the reconstruction of a man, taken between his past and the possibility of a new existence, in pages of a unique atmosphere and a millimeter composition, distilling the clues and secrets in the drop.
Nathan Devers – overheating (Albin Michel)
Former student of the École normale supérieure and aggregated in philosophy, author of several essays and novels, Nathan Devers is also publisher of the Revue la Rége du Jeu, founded by Bernard-Henri Lévy, and regularly works on the CNews channel. Overheatedpublished by Albin Michel, is his third novel.
With overheating, Nathan Devers continues his literary and philosophical exploration of modernity, in an exciting and twilight novel which deciphers the fundamental alienation of the time: burn-out, black face of a society where human relations are empty of their meaning.
Nelly Alard – La Manif (Gallimard)
An actress and screenwriter, Nelly Alard received the Roger Nimier Prize in 2010 for her first novel Le Cieur de Nuit, largely inspired by her Breton childhood, and the prize interallied in 2013 for a couple’s moments, “conjugal thriller” which will have great success in bookstores, and will be translated into several languages.
Poignant and breathless, The Manif, Published by Gallimard, and inspired by a true story, depicts, from the point of view of the victim and his entourage, the consequences of police violence.
Samuel Brussels – Black and white soap opera (La Baconnière)
Born in Haifa, Israel, Samuel Brussell spent his childhood in France and Spain, before undertaking in 1971 a Tour d’Europe in hitchhiking, during which he went to Italy, Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium. He regularly met Raymond Queneau in Paris in 1972, then successively lived Brussels, London, Dublin and Naples. He will also go to New York, California, Israel, Eastern Europe and Cuba.
Published by the Swiss publisher La Baconnière, Black and white soap opera Aims, by an amalgamation of memories, literary reflections, and material, political and spiritual remarks, to provoke the dream of its reader, and invites him to contemplation of moments of wealth to feed in turn.
Anne Defréville – The best of both worlds (Futuropolis)
After a childhood in Aix-en-Provence and studies at the School of Fine Arts in Marseille, Anne Defréville begins her professional career in the edition: first as a graphic designer, then artistic director and finally author-illustrator. It is published in the press, and also performs illustrations of blankets. In love with science and nature, she wrote the blue age in 2019, a graphic novel of anticipation and humor on the ecological crisis of the seabed, and adapts as a comic strip, by Joseph Kessel, published by Futuropolis in 2024.
The best of both worldsdocumentary comic book co-written with Doctor Alice Desbiolles, and published this year at Futuropolis, goes to meet specialists to take an overview of the ecological future of our planet
Saturday August 23
11h
New – Literary aperitif
Troubs – Born in Bordeaux, Troubs studied at the Fine Arts in Toulouse and then of Angoulême. Installed from the Dordogne, Troubs never leaves from his home without a small bag containing several drawing notebooks.
Designer in love with nature and trips, his bucolic walks lead him into the meadows that run along his house, or at the other end of the world, in Australia, Borneo, China or Madagascar.
18h
Pierre HURMIC – The Savignac affair (Hérodios)
Strongly marked by his meeting with Jacques Ellul, who was his teacher at Sciences Po Bordeaux, and of which he is one of the assumed heirs, Pierre Hurmic, native of the Basque Country, is committed to politics to defend his environmental convictions, in parallel with his career as a lawyer. Long opposing to Alain Juppé, he was elected mayor of Bordeaux in 2020. He published this year a first novel, The Savignac affair.
Ecolo-judicial and dystopian novel, The Savignac affairpublished this year by Hérodios editions, seeks, with humor and a lot of self-mockery, to arouse in the reader an awareness, with conviction, but without proselytism. A committed, but tender and tasty book.
A tree – The last days of Harry Yuan (To the devil Vauvert)
Author-songwriter, Arbon, former director general of Flammarion born in Paris and graduated from HEC, produced five albums, which he rained in Paradise in 2007, and Cap & La Bousson in 2014. He also wrote and interpreted a show on La Fontaine et Brassens, and chaired a festival. The last days of Harry Yuan is his first novel.
In The last days of Harry Yuanpublished in the Devil Vauvert, Arbon immerses us with an art consumed between reality and fiction in a dreadedly ingenious and elegant thriller, where the story of the shock between human passions and technological mutations is tinged with a subtle form of meditation.
Pierre Buhler – Poland: History of an ambition (Tallandier)
Originally from Alsace, enarque, graduate of HEC, promotion 1975, “the presidential election”, teacher and diplomat, member of the Montaigne institute and president of the French institute from 2017 to 2020, Pierre Buhler served in the French Embassies in Warsaw, Moscow and Washington. Ambassador of France in Singapore and then in Poland, he was diplomatic advisor to the Minister of Defense Alain Richard and was appointed associate professor in international relations at Sciences Po.
His latest work, Poland: History of an ambitionpublished by Tallandier, plunges into the history of this country and analyzes the lines of force of the “Polish moment”: the deep anchoring of Catholicism, the fierce defense of its freedom and the rampart which it constitutes in the East, and how this major actor shakes up the balance of power.
Sylvie Kauffman – The blinded: how Berlin and Paris left the way for Russia (Stock)
Former correspondent of the Agency France-Presse in London, Warsaw and Moscow, then to the newspaper Le Monde for Eastern Europe and the United States, after studying at the Aix-en-Provence Institute of Political Studies and at the Training Center for Journalists in Paris, she became editor for several years, before becoming a editorial director alongside Gérard Courtois and Alain Frachon. She regularly intervenes in the program L’Esprit Public on France Culture.
The blinded: how Berlin and Paris left the way to Russia, published by Stock, tells, through the testimonies of its protagonists, the key episodes of the last twenty years, and what has prevented us from seeing the reality of Putin’s Russia.
Rachid petrol – The man who read books (Juliard)
Rachid Benzine is a Franco-Moroccan intellectual, teacher and associate researcher with the Ricoeur fund. Specialist in Islam and political scientist, he also distinguished himself through his novels and plays, acclaimed by the public and criticism, including the Silences of Fathers, Grand Prix of the Métis novel. He publishes this year The man who read booksat Julliard’s.
In a world where bombs seem to have the last word, The man who read bookspublished by Julliard, reminds us that books are our greatest chance of survival. As if, in the middle of chaos, a man who reads was the most radical of revolutions
