Literature

Matthieu Mégevand: «For some artists, creation is an explosion».»

LONG FORM INTERVIEW, Ivan Garcia | Historian of religions, journalist and director of the Labor et Fides publishing house, Matthieu Mégevand is a busy man in his thirties. He is currently completing a novel trilogy, published by Editions Flammarion, on the theme of creation/destruction. The first part, «La bonne vie», published in 2018, is dedicated to the poet Roger Gilbert-Lecomte and his «experimental metaphysics». This first book won him the eleventh edition (2019 - 2020) of the Le Roman des Romands literary prize, awarded by school and gymnasium classes. The second part of his trilogy, published in 2019, focuses on the painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and takes the reader back to Belle Epoque Paris to follow in the footsteps of this misunderstood deformed genius. As for the third part, now in the final stages of writing, it will be published in the coming years and will take as its protagonist that virtuoso of musical beauty, Mozart. To discuss this ambitious trilogy and his career as a writer, we meet Matthieu in Geneva at the «café librairie-livresse», a stone's throw from Plainpalais.

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