Adrien Bosc was born in 1986 in Avignon. In 2014, he received for his first novel, “Constellation”, the Grand Prix du roman from the French Academy, as well as the Vocation prize. After “Capitaine” in 2018, he publishes the last volume of a trilogy under the title “Colonne” with Stock editions. He is also a publisher and founder of Éditions du Sous-sol.
“In August 1936, at the start of the Spanish Civil War, the philosopher Simone Weil, who was not yet thirty, left to join the Aragon front and the international brigades of the Durutti column. During an offensive on the banks of the Ebro, she hurt herself by plunging her foot into a basin of hot oil.
Simone Weil spends forty-five days in Spain. Of this stay, we know almost nothing. A passport, scattered notes from a “Journal of Spain” of which thirty-four pages survive, letters and photographs in uniform.
To act, to think, to write, would be one and the same thing.
From the mystery of a brief life, an impossible commitment, Adrien Bosc has drawn a novel with a clear line. In the midst of the chaos of a civil war, he tells us of an intense and tragic existence, of which the fight in Spain was the tipping point. (Presentation of Stock editions)
CHRONICLE: “Splendours and miseries of the great library” by Baptiste Touverey.