Quentin Mouron: «Art has always seemed an artifice to me».»

Provocative dandy and observer of his times, Quentin Mouron questions progress and decadence in his novels. Meet a lucid writer who dismantles modern illusions without renouncing the beauty of the word.

He has been described as the «Swiss Houellebecq». Quentin Mouron could just as easily be considered the «Swiss Beigbeder». Like the French fifty-something, he cultivates an image of a well-dressed bad boy, a decadent dandy. Like the French quinquagenarian, his works are immersed in the atmosphere of borderline, classy but gloomy bars, the «vulgarity of the bourgeoisie» as Thiéfaine sings, blood and white. Like the French quinquagenarian, he uses the trick of the literary double to paint his personal paradoxes with distance, but panache, to the point of pointing out those of society as a whole. Except that Quentin Mouron, on the other hand, is in his thirties, and