«Pierric Bailly's »A la pointe": a museum at the confluence of lives

Since 2014, Editions Cambourakis and Lyon's Musée des Confluences have joined forces to give birth to a project, at the crossroads of literature and art: the «Récits d'objets» collection. The idea is simple: invite novelists to choose an object from the museum's extensive holdings (over two million!) and let the experience take shape, giving birth to a work of fiction. And for this opuscule, the guest author shakes up the codes!

Pierric Bailly, author of several works published by P.O.L., had the honor of being the fourth writer—and the most recent to date—to explore the collection of the Musée des Confluences. However, unlike the other contributors to the series, Pierric Bailly does not focus on a single object, but rather on the ultimate object: the museum itself. His narrative chooses to give the museum not a descriptive role, but a narrative one: it guides