Erik Orsenna, the ogre-cuckoo, the sorrel and the pulley

Erik Orsenna the ogre cuckoo the sorrel and the pulley

Like a ferocious tale, the Academician Erik Orsenna tells through the pages of his new novel and without naming it, the itinerary of the businessman Vincent Bolloré.

If Erik Orsenna was an animal, it would probably be a cat. Because he had 7 lives – at least. Best-selling writer Prix Goncourt 1988 for ” The Colonial Exhibition », State Councillor, economist and teacher-researcher specializing in development economics, ministerial adviser to the Ministry of Cooperation, cultural adviser and pen of President Mitterrand, Master of Requests at the Council of State, French Academician – under the Coupole he occupies chair 17. We may be forgetting some.

But if Erik Orsenna is a cat, it may also be because he knows how to make a velvet paw as well as get his claws out. Evidenced by his latest book, in which he tackles a gluttonous businessman, whose appetite has never dried up: Vincent Bolloré.

story of an ogre by Erik Orsenna was published by Gallimard.

Reporting : Marjorie Bertin visited the exhibition Louis Boulanger, dreamy painter », devoted to the painter and best friend of Victor Hugo. A retrospective to see until March 5, 2023 at the Maison de Victor Hugo.

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