Philippe Claudel, under the dark empire of the human soul

Philippe Claudel under the dark empire of the human soul

Philippe Claudel, Prix Goncourt des lycéens in 2007 for “Le rapport de Brodeck” and Prix Renaudot in 2003 for “Lesâmes grises”, returns today with “ Dusk » a new novel published by Stock. A cruel, dark and disturbing allegory of the human soul. A captivating story.

Filmmaker and writer, member of the Académie Goncourt, Philippe Claudel is both a man of words and a man of images. In his own way, he is also a painter. A painter of the human soul, who in his latest novel reveals to us its implacable darkness, the dark and cruel face of a humanity confronted with the demons it engenders and broods within itself.

“Why does the Devil always enjoy coming back to earth? wonders one of his characters, perhaps the most innocent – ​​or the least guilty – of all the human beings he portrays with a writing that is both ample and sharp, carnal and colorful, of an always sustained intensity. .

Dusk », the new novel by Philippe Claudel is published by Stock editions.

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