Daniel Sangsue and the ghost of the university

Le Regard Libre N° 64 - Jonas Follonier

Daniel Sangsue hits hard. Under his real name - and not under the pseudonym «Ernest Mignatte» of his previous works - he has written a new novel which is both a satire of Joël Dicker and a settling of scores with the academic world. Daniel Sangsue is now retired from the university, which he had so much to tell us about. Although he tells us a little more in this interview, the main part of his story is to be found in his book. A la recherche de Karl Kleber is first and foremost a novel of disappearance that plays with the codes of the genre, allowing the author - who also specializes in parody... and ghosts - to have some fun, mocking the regional detective story in the process. Meet a professor of literature who goes against the grain.

Le Regard Libre: The narrator of your novel is a disillusioned, retired professor of literature - a sort of Daniel Sa