Off to Vesoul!

Tuesday's books - Ivan Garcia

Assailed by letters from the administration reminding him of his upcoming civil protection service, an anonymous narrator decides to flee his Swiss apartment. Knowing neither where to go nor with whom, he sets off like a solitary adventurer on the road. Until he meets a mysterious man who takes him in his Audi A4 Sedan on the road to Vesoul to attend a congress. But on that same January 7, 2015, something important happened...

Published by Olivier Morattel, Vesoul, January 7, 2015 is the sixth novel by Swiss-Canadian writer Quentin Mouron. This tale - which we'll consider an ode to parody - takes the reader on a grotesque fresco in which all of society's tendencies are represented. From cultural Marxism to French royalism and the #JesuisCharlie trend, the two comparses prota