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Hubert Marécaille
A former print journalist based in Brussels, Hubert Marécaille published his first novel, Le traité du menteur, in 2013 with Éditions Goater, and a short story, Une erreur monumentale, in 2000, published by the Maison de la culture de Loire-Atlantique. This author also works as a screenwriter and director.
In this collection of thirty short stories, both tragic and burlesque, the author presents the courageously philosophical and offbeat meditations of his fictional alter ego (probably a little neurotic) confronted with himself and the futile and derisory dramas of existence, whose slightest annoyance, the slightest difficulty seems immediately imbued, for him, with an eminent metaphysical significance. And perhaps so, in fact… Publication date: November 4, 2024 Order Press release
