François AUDOUY

François AUDOUY

Né en 1985, François Audouy est l’auteur d’un recueil de nouvelles (Brighton Rock(s), L’Écarlate, 2011) et d’un essai consacré à Antonin Artaud (Antonin Artaud, le sur-vivant, L’Harmattan, 2016). Originaire de la région parisienne, il a vécu à Londres et à Dakar, où il enseignait dans un lycée français. Il publie également un recueil de poèmes, Mémoire vive, en 2025 et a participé à la traduction des Messages Révolutionnaires d’Antonin Artaud parue au Royaume-Uni 2024.


By a strange twist of fate, a budding writer finds himself thrust into 1920s Paris, where he meets his idol Marcel Proust… François Audouy invites us on a journey into the past, the past of the Belle Époque, but also our own, the most intimate and truest. L'Amour de Proust au Temps du Covid is not a critical essay on Proust, but a tribute through the prism of fiction. The author shares his love of In Search of Lost Time and literature in general, the kind that imprints itself on reality to the point of altering our perceptions. He includes several layers of narratives and literary history as well as references to popular culture, which he cross-references and superimposes to create a new voice. A book about reminiscence cannot be written from the outside. The narrator resurrects his lost years, echoing Proust's memories, using In Search of Lost Time as a guide that illuminates our lives with new meaning. Even if certain moments remain "suspended in the air like unfinished novels", if we no longer take certain "train lines of memories", it is the quest for lost paradises, for the books we are writing, which pushes us forward and keeps us in transit - in Time. Publication: April 1, 2025 Order Press release

                                                                    François Audouy : "Nous sommes tous proustiens sans le savoir" , à lire sur Actualitté.com