Jean-Luc Savard

Jean-Luc Savard

Born in Nancy (you know, the cradle of decorative arts inspired by Nature), I studied biology and biochemistry at university in Montpellier. I was destined for landscape art, at its national higher education school in Versailles, where they train creators of large gardens. At twenty, a twist of fate diverted me from green spaces for twenty years. Having become a low quadriplegic, discovering a new sport in a wheelchair, I was a 4-wheel fencer, a high-level athlete, French foil champion in a little-known category, as well as a senior executive in a disabled sports association for fifteen years, all while being passionate about literature, a free auditor in Modern Literature for a long time. Then one day, I bought a large wooded park with rare species, a place that had fallen into disrepair. A late-in-life landscape artist, caring for this park, devoting most of my strength and resources to it, living in the former convent near which these large trees have helped me for thirteen years to live in the green, between contemplation and action, I also turned to writing out of a desire to convey a strong vision, likely to win the support of whoever reads me, to share together a completely different place, in - and throughout - the world. Through the novel, a oriented literature, I would like to reach as many people as possible. To make people think while entertaining, about the place of man in his fragile environment, that is my main aim; will I be able, thanks to you and the supposed scope of my text, to incite without ostentation to very great questioning?

Towards the end of the 19th century, in a setting close to the future "World Peace Capital," two modest youths, two lives between adolescence and adulthood, signal the context of the time. They will point to the departure of two existences soon detached from their predictable futures. Inadvertently cast off, these two destinies will navigate a plot with parallels, in very vast domains, almost between tropics and ice floes. Then, patiently circumvented at the beginning of the 20th century, an essential theme, hidden in the future of the two protagonists, will guide your reading towards a crescendo of underlying questions. On the one hand, glorified fiction, the variety of narrative choices, the diversity of reflective sources. On the other, a narrative developed in correspondence, to elucidate the future of the young girl mentioned in the prologue. These foundations will lead and refer from one character to another, until the finale, a mock requiem, with a major revelation, a surprise twist. Before that, a whole yesterday taken as a detailed relationship to today's world, to consider tomorrow with a fresh eye.