“The Lord of Porchies”: this American masterpiece spotted by chance by the Modiano and almost unknown in the USA

Egolf will quickly take note of the profession of his “stepfather” by placing his baluchon in the Modiano living room. Nevertheless, Marie and Tristan begin, in fact, a relationship. Consequently, A year later, taken from insomnia, Patrick wanders in the chamber of two young people. Therefore, In his indiscreet painting, the writer discovers a rated manuscript placed on the desk. Moreover, But without being able to read it. However, The author of Dora brother not mastering the language of Shakespeare… “Patrick Modiano will still have the intuition of a great text just by watching the book. However, its materiality”tell Adrien Bosc, author of Tristan’s invention***an exciting novel inquiry which has just appeared on Egolf.

It is Dominique, his English -speaking wife, who will immerse himself in the prose of Tristan. Meanwhile, “the lord porchies”: this american She comes out of it. However, “”It’s great, be careful! For example, “she said to her husband according to an archive of Monde. Consequently, Patrick will carry, himself, the text to Antoine Gallimard. Moreover, The Parisian publishing house signs the author and immediately acquired global rights on his work. Furthermore, Egolf is just 23 years old when his novel Punk was released in France in the fall of 1998. Moreover, The text became cult in France, while a thirty American publishers had rejected this fabulous text.

A literary UFO – "the lord porchies": this american

The Lord of Porchies**** is a “UFO” out of a crazy imagination. For example, full of cynicism and humor, a vitriol portrait of the defects of America, which it is almost impossible to let go once the first page has started. Similarly, Egolf. Moreover, who grew up in the boredom of Kentucky and Pennsylvania, recounts the life of “the lord porchies”: this american John Kaltenbrunner, poor lonely Hère of Baker, fictitious and putrefi of the Corn Beltwho hates the school as much as he is hated by his “comrades” and his teachers. Similarly, In discomfort. In addition, living alone with his widow of mother, John will put all the energy that he does not insuffle in his schooling in favor of nature and animals to set up his own farm. A company prosperous to his mother’s illness during which the young man discovers the rapaacity. stupidity of adults, who will make him a rabid man.

After a forced exile. John returns many years later to the scene of his childhood to restore the currency of his play to the community and revenge in a skillful way all the lost lost of the USA. “I think it’s one of the best readings of Trumpism. Cupidity, bigotry, hypocrisy, mercantile puritanism and at the same time terrifying and armed, and American creative madness”Adrien Bosc list. “I regret that he is not read in the United States.”

The Lord of Porchies It may be venerated in the French-speaking world. in particular thanks to booksellers and word of mouth, it is very difficult to get the work on the stalls in the USA. And yet, Lord of the “the lord porchies”: this american Barnyard was published by him and more precisely at Grove, on April 24, 2000. His text found a certain echo in literary circles before being scratched by a critic of the New York Times. “It is truly a book that Americans do not know”deplores Adrien Bosc before continuing. “He is one of Egolf’s dramas, when he returns to the United States, it is like the prodigal son. He imagines that the publication at Grove will change his life. at least that he will be read by those around him.” Missed. Egolf will publish two other novels, but without being able to approach the literary quality of Lord of Porchies. Skirt and the Fiddle During his lifetime, Kornwolf Well after his death.

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As solar “the lord porchies”: this american as it is dark

Adrien Bosc crossed the Atlantic to meet many witnesses of history, including relatives of Egolf, in order to portray his portrait, tell his genius, and try to understand his descent into hell. According to him. the opposite trajectories of two members of the Tristan family have counted a lot: those of his grandfather and his father.

First there is Warren “Bing” Evans, Le Papy. Bosc found a book written by the Grandfather’s care which recorded his heroic life there. Warren tells how he saved a little girl on a beach in the middle of a bombing during the. Italian campaign at the risk of his life … At the other end of the spectrum, there is the father. After a career as a parliamentary attaché, Brad Evans (Tristan took the name of his stepfather) joined, completely fanatized, L. Brent Bozell. an ultra-conservative “the lord porchies”: this american man at the head of a sectarian community, the company of the Commonwealth, congregation of secessionist Americans in Franco Spain. Their goal: to lead “Messianic counter-revolution “.

Once back in the USA, this father will quickly disappear from the daily life of Egolf. However. Adrien Bosc discovered that the author of Lord was obsessed with this absent parent, who “the lord porchies”: this american died when he was 15 years old, a failed writer of which he had recovered a set of texts, letters (some of which exchanged with Norman Mailer) and attempts at novels. “”A cursed burden “ that he will work everywhere, writes the French novelist. Tristan Egolf will even retape the paternal texts and. among them, a news that stages a scouring strike, as in The Lord of Porchies…

“When we discover that the father had thought of this revolt of garbage collectors. that the argument, or the climax of the book, it is this revolt, it is very meaningful. I think parents are always ghosts for their own children. There is a ghost and this ghost almost enjoins him to do what his father could not do. I really had the image that there were two poles in the life of Tristan Egolf. The little angel, the grandfather, “the lord porchies”: this american and the bad demon, the father. Good and bad choice. I think he saw two examples of a good life and a burnt life. “

By reading Tristan’s inventionwe discover that he led the two extremes head -on. Capable of being brilliant and solar, but also of falling into darkness by beating his partner one evening in September 2000.

Three years later. Tristan Egolf will fall in depression, before shooting himself in the head at only thirty-three years, ten years after the publication of his first novel. Thirty-six. too, after the death of John Kennedy Tole (The conspiracy of fools) and three years before that of David Foster Wallace (The infinite comedy). Two other American margin writers. depressive geniuses who left too fast, that we warmly encourage you, if not, to have to read.

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Just like that of Adrien Bosc that it would be wise to translate into English to finally make Egolf known in the USA. “I do not see myself as a white knight, but this book was born with smugglers. He had a community of readers who considered this book as cult and watched over his destiny with us. If I can be an extra passer. towards his country of origin and that he is read, I would not be unhappy”concludes the winner of the Grand Prix of the Roman of the French Academy for his first novel Constellation.

“Tristan invention” | Roman Investigation by Adrien Bosc, Stock, 256 pp. | € 20.50, digital € 14.99