Ronan Bars
Ronan Bars is a prison teacher. He immerses us in the daily life of the prison corridor through a captivating narrative, both documentary and gripping. *Journal de débord* is his second novel after *La maison K*.
Victorugo isn't a good guy. He's in prison. Since he stopped working in the workshops, he's taken up writing. Until then, he was the prison scribe in the corridor. Now he's a novelist. His near-friends, his dream loves, his well-hidden cell phone, his troubles. Victorugo is hatching an ideal project, a grand utopia under construction: the prison farm. He keeps a journal. Only, there's Catchy, a brutal guard, Bastignac, that bastard of a cellmate, and the opposing events. The time of the overflowing journal.
The K. family arrives in the village with their "noble old woman" and four of their five children; the eldest is imprisoned in the nearby penitentiary. For him, they have left the country; for him, they make do with life in an enigmatic house under an absurdly unsettling climate. For him, they plot his escape, protect his flight, and follow his wanderings through the forgotten islands of the Atlantic and the uncertain corners of the South American continent.
