Bertrand Gaydon
In these twenty-one short stories, Bertrand Gaydon, born in 1966 in Paris, has lived in numerous countries and on different continents, wherever his career as an engineer took him, before returning to his hometown. For several years, he has published short stories and poems in magazines, and is also the author of two poetry collections: "Les sirènes silencieuses" (Polder no. 199 – Gros Textes, 2023) and "Sonnets de la bêtise et de la paresse" (Le Corridor bleu, 2025). He plays the guitar, much to the despair of his neighbors, who, in retaliation, have taken up the trombone or the cello.
In these twenty-one short stories, Bertrand Gaydon humorously and vividly portrays, from Buenos Aires to New Orleans, from China to Senegal, characters who are part heroic, part outcast, but in any case, less brilliant or special than they would like to imagine themselves to be. Among them are a philosophy professor fairy, an inventor of everyday expressions, a couple who adopt a dying person, defendants who determine their own sentences, a bear tamer ill at ease in real life, and many other fictional figures lost in the everyday. Publication date: September 1, 2025. Order now. Press release.
