Charles Duttine
Charles Duttine began his writing career by choosing short texts. He cherishes this concise form where each word must resonate through its meaning, its musicality, and its relevance. What does he love about writing? The celebration of the imagination, that wild spirit within that brings together fantasy, chance, and the unexpected… After spending his adolescence in Bourges, in central France, Charles Duttine pursued his studies at the Sorbonne. Since then, he has taught literature and philosophy. He is the author of two short story collections ("Folklore" and "Au regard des bêtes") and a novel, "Henri Beyle et son curieux tourment."
A swimming instructor suddenly discovers strange ripples on the surface of the water in his pool. This is the starting point of the first novella. Along with this character, we wonder if the fantastic has intruded upon his life. Events then unfold, propelling the plot toward new surprises marked by an unsettling strangeness. An aquatic journey that invites us to consider the fleeting and unsettling relationship we have with water, this primal element... The second novella plunges us into another equally unsettling journey, that of Marcel Bascoulard, an extraordinary painter and poet who lived in Bourges in the 1960s and 70s. A disturbing, tragic, yet also sublime life of vagrancy, leading us into the mysterious depths of creation.
