Le Goncourt rend heureux, Alexis Jenni en est la preuve
Si l'histoire littéraire a retenu le cas de lauréats qui ont été rendus malheureux par leur prix Goncourt, il en existe également des heureux, tels qu'Alexis Jenni, qui écrit et publie abondamment - quatre livres en six mois.
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00:00 If literary history has retained the case of the laureates who were made unhappy by their awards,
00:04 there are also happy ones, such as Alexis Djenny, who writes and publishes four books in six months.
00:10 "I'm doing very well," says the writer at AFP.
00:13 "It was not given."
00:15 As he says in Le Cerveau, "What's the difference?"
00:19 Published on Thursday, he was the victim of a brain vascular accident in November 2022.
00:24 Launching a short essay collection, at the Swiss publisher Protestants Labor et Fides,
00:29 this striking text tells of the changes in his perception after this stroke
00:33 and what neurology is today of the brain.
00:36 It's funny and intelligent at the same time.
00:39 The affected organ is fine.
00:41 I haven't lost the use of my brain.
00:44 Even if I only saw half of the things, and it was complicated,
00:47 jokingly I said I had had a stroke from Nantes, explains Alexis Djenny, 60 years old.
00:53 The book also tells of this sadness of having gone so close to my own death,
00:57 a huge emotion that my brain had set on the key so that it wouldn't panic.
01:02 Man has a unique career in literature.
01:05 A science professor at high school, a Sunday writer,
01:08 he never managed to get published before his 48 years, and the French art of war.
01:14 Gallimard bet on him during the literary return in 2011.
01:18 Not interested in the big world.
01:20 This fiction on a former war of Indochina and Algeria won the Goncourt Prize.
01:25 He faces, among other things, Sorge Chalandon, who is still running today after this reward.
01:30 The price projector stroke, followed by a return to a certain anonymity, can destabilize.
01:36 Romain Garry was so tired that he was not read more seriously,
01:39 long after his coronation in 1956, that he went back to zero under a pseudonym.
01:45 It will be Émile Ajard who will win the Goncourt Prize in 1975,
01:49 five years before the writer's suicide.
01:51 Yves Navarre, Goncourt 1980, was also the victim of a stroke at 44,
01:57 then committed suicide ten years later.
02:00 Pascal Lainet, Goncourt 1974,
02:03 entrusted in 2007 to the New York Times that the novel had devoured him
02:06 and complained of not being of interest to the greater world.
02:09 In a spectacular way, Jean Carrière, in The Price of a Goncourt in 1987,
02:14 told his fall into depression after his prize in 1972.
02:18 I read this book, "Alexis de Génie".
02:21 Carrière explains that he was already not doing very well,
02:24 that he had built a small world while writing, and that this world had been swept away.
02:28 "The intellect remains alive.
02:30 I am not at all a melancholic, dark and desperate writer," he adds.
02:36 "For twenty years I had written without being published, always being refused.
02:40 I continued to write afterwards.
02:43 I have published twenty-five books since.
02:45 In October, it was us, the Gallimard editions,
02:48 collecting three years of chronicles for the daily La Croix.
02:52 In April, it will be Le Naturaliste, a biography of a scientist he admires,
02:57 the biologist Francis Allais, at the Paulsen editions,
03:00 and a beautiful book on the Second World War of a famous photographer,
03:03 Robert Capa, Liberation, at the Seuil editions.
03:07 Proof that yes, the intellect remains alive.
03:10 It was as soon as the convalescence,
03:12 the moment when he started his trial on the brain.
03:15 Making this book was a kind of verification that everything was still working.
03:20 I started it on my hospital bed, the author remembers.
03:24 The publisher Marion Muller is a very close friend, to whom I gave news.
03:29 I told her my hallucinations in a slightly crazy way.
03:32 She told me that I should make a book out of it.