Jean-Marie Malbec

Jean-Marie Malbec


Jean-Marie Malbec

Jean-Marie Malbec, a retired teacher, enjoys sharing with readers an offbeat way of thinking about the republic's school system. He spends his time between the tip of Penmarc'h in the Pays Bigouden and Evian-les-Bains in the Alps. He has taught in France, but also, for several years, abroad, notably in Madagascar, Qatar, and Dubai. He has published with Douro: "An Ideal High School?", "(When) Jules Becomes Eugène," and "Reprisals Psthumes."

Un sociologue célèbre a toujours affirmé que « La prison fabriquait des délinquants. » Lysandre, prisonnier notoire, n’a pas d’idée préconçue sur ce sujet, mais ajoute avec conviction :


A police investigation begins in a school, led by a police captain, relaxed and detached from many things. Facing him, a principal discovers that his high school is not what he believes it to be. — A phalanstery in my high school? But that's totally insane! Nothing more banal, you might say. A second story began a few years earlier and is interwoven with the first. A small originality specific to this novel: a student creates a school phalanstery in his high school. A community of students proposes original projects based on the model of Charles Fourier, a utopian of the early 19th century, which changes all human relationships within this establishment. Two worlds brush against each other, without ever meeting, two parallel universes, that of the students on one side and the teachers on the other. The two stories will meet, but to understand what happens next, you will have to overcome a whole series of obstacles. Because this book is above all a detective novel, built around an ideal to be achieved, which must be devoured like a true moment of pleasure. Publication date: 2nd edition, July 1, 2024 1st edition: July 1, 2021 Order Press release



What do you do when you feel betrayed on all sides? When nothing works properly anymore? When I realize that for months I was a naive mule, without even realizing it, without understanding anything about the biased human relationships that make me doubt myself today. I see only one solution: make them pay a high price, all those who made a lot of money off my back and who are ready to abandon me at the slightest misstep. I blame them, you can't imagine. I don't know how yet, but they're going to feel it. That's for sure. For his part, the commander has given up, long ago, he too felt betrayed. At the very least, we'll say that he received little support. He drags his malaise, the origin of which he doesn't understand, along the edges of the A6, between Auxerre and Joigny, to motorway service areas whose refrain he knows by heart. These two will never speak to each other, and yet their destinies will cross, to the point of intertwining and a certain number of people are likely to remember it, I tell you! Release date: September 1, 2023 Order





The author offers us through his detective story what an ideal high school would be like where everyone would have their place, where everyone would have a role to play. He uses the utopias of Charles Fourier, an author from the early 19th century, to evoke new avenues at the beginning of the 21st century. This well-conducted story poses multiple questions and questions us about the very essence of the transmission of knowledge as it currently operates. Through this transmissibility, it is the way of approaching teaching that is at the center of this work. As in any modern novel, it is up to the reader to form their own opinion since the author does not offer a real solution even if many avenues are offered. This detective novel presents the form of a true coming-of-age novel with multiple characters, tinged with a social dimension. Publication date: July 1, 2021 Order