The world according to Quentin Mouron: Annie Ernaux against nothingness

Each month, we feature a column by one of the personalities who give us the pleasure of alternating between the two. In this post, writer Quentin Mouron explores a topical issue with his usual sharpness..

We love writers, of course. We tolerate them as drunkards, festively lecherous, bawdy on weekends; we understand that they have a big heart, that they sometimes weep, that they episodically sign tribunes for world peace or drinking water in Africa. After all, it's a no-brainer, and the reader can relate. The soul tingles a little, but that doesn't hurt anyone.

But the tone changes when they commit themselves more clearly, more concretely. If they go so far as to give Jean-Luc Mélenchon their arm at a demonstration, as Annie Ernaux did, and that