Jean-Baptiste Del Amo: charred bodies, consumed desires

Whether as a simple theme, a narrative engine, a motif of subversion, a field of exploration or reappropriation, sexuality has always been present in literature, until it enjoyed a resurgence in popularity with the rise of chick lit, new and dark romance, first on the Wattpad platform and then on bookshop shelves. On the French literary scene, young authors such as Simon Johannin, Pauline Delabroy-Allard and Arthur Dreyfus have taken up this subject, without ornamentation or parade, to reveal its raw naturalness. But there is one novelist who asserts himself even more boldly, combining an extremely classical style of writing with a raw, sinister and unvarnished observation of the carnal and of human nature. That novelist is Jean-Baptiste Del Amo.

Auteur de cinq romans, tous publiés chez Gallimard, Jean-Baptise Del Am