Label: French Literature
«The Return, episode 1

«The Return, episode 1

NEW | Every month, the young Swiss author Elliot Mazzella publishes his novel «Le retour» exclusively in the pages of *Le Regard Libre*, in fifteen installments. A return to fiction in these pages, a return to the time-honored tradition of the serialized novel.
Yann Moix: «Every time someone's tried to kill me, I've gotten away with it».»

Yann Moix: «Every time someone's tried to kill me, I've gotten away with it».»

LONG-FORM INTERVIEW, Jonas Follonier | Moix is a free spirit. Above all, he is driven by «novelistic truth»—which he conveys with the flair of a genius, using phrases that are as sensitive as they are harsh, and as tragic as they are funny. Who else but a master of premeditated improvisation is capable of this? A former panelist on the show «On n’est pas couché,» hosted by Laurent Ruquier on France 2, and former host of his own show «Chez Moix» on Paris Première, Yann Moix is also a child of television, who loves to put his verbal wit to work in the intimate and demanding exploration of people, books, and the world. I had been warned: «He’s a bit of an oddball.» This experience was confirmed during this interview, which very nearly didn’t happen. The writer, director, and television commentator opens up to *Le Regard Libre* about his «horrible years» in his twenties, the city of Reims in the 1980s, and the anti-Semitism he became entangled in during that time. And one of the best contemporary French authors explains to us exactly what he means by «novelistic truth,» two years after being the subject of controversies related to his family—a family he no longer refers to as such.