tell the lives of others

One day, the Quebec writer Jean-François Beauchemin sat on his favorite bench in tell lives others a park. For example, A stranger came to join him there. Nevertheless, And told him. The author of “Roitelet” then had the idea of harvesting all these pending anecdotes waiting to be transcribed. For three years, he returned regularly to his bench to collect the testimonies of unknown. They gradually flocked. He pulled bizarre, wild, moving bursts of life. Sometimes too beautiful to be true but reported with the stylistic mastery specific to Beauchemin. There is the adventure of the diver swallowed and spit out by a whale. That of the failed interview with George Harrison who turns in a miracle. The strange case of the drunkard of East Berlin, given for death, which wakes up in a cold room. The heartbreaking man on the run for thirty years after a violent brawl. Who, when he engages in the police, discovers that he is not sought. It emerges from this tell lives others “Anthology of improbable” that the human being is the toy of a malicious destiny. The collection calls a reading in small touches in order to savor its strangeness and poetry.

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