” Today Kurt Cobain died “. The singer and writer Joseph d’Anvers paints the portrait of six young high school graduates marked by the suicide of the leader of Nirvana, a true symbol for the youth of the time. A disappearance that symbolizes, in a world that is falling apart and at the crossroads of their lives, the end of illusions and the last days of innocence, for his heirs of “generation X”, children of baby boomers and the last generation to growing up without the internet.
It is the novel of what is called “generation X”. The last generation not to have grown up with the Internet on a daily basis, the one who was 18 years old – a little more or a little less – in 1994. It is also the novel of the end of adolescence that this writer who is also a singer, and more precisely a singer-songwriter, delivers to us today.
No wonder, because the music is at the heart of this learning story which is from start to finish a matter of bands: the soundtrack of the 90s, a band of friends who crosses a band of skins and a band of punks who raise pittbulls and a “band” in the Anglo-Saxon sense of the term, understand a group, in this case a rock band that plays in their premises to free themselves by drinking music and impressing the girls.
“ an ordinary boy ” of Joseph of Antwerp is published by Rivages editions.
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