Douro Editions "Through reading, we become absent from ourselves and our own lives." Alphonse Karr
Charles Duttine
Charles Duttine began writing by choosing short texts. He favors this concise form where each word must resonate through its meaning, musicality, and relevance. What does he love about writing? The celebration of the imagination, this madcap home that brings together fantasy, chance, and the unexpected... After spending his adolescence in Bourges, central France, Charles Duttine continued his studies at the Sorbonne. Since then, he has taught literature and philosophy. He is the author of two collections of short stories ("Folklore" and "Au regard des bêtes") and a novel, "Henri Beyle et son curieux tourment."
A swimming instructor who suddenly discovers strange curls on the surface of the water in his pool. This is the starting point of the first novella. And, we wonder with this character if the fantastic is not bursting into his life. Events then follow one another, leading the plot towards new surprises marked by a disturbing strangeness. An aquatic journey that invites us to understand the fleeting and troubled relationship we have with water, this primary element... The second novella plunges us into another equally troubled journey, the artistic one of Marcel Bascoulard, an extraordinary painter and poet, who lived in Bourges in the 60s and 70s. A disturbing, tragic, but also sublime life of a tramp, plunging us into the mysterious depths of creation.
