From his fifteen years teaching Latin American literature at the University, Sébastien Rutés keeps this idea of Jorge Luis Borges that there is no better biography for a writer than his works. The biography of Sébastien Rutés includes six novels of very diverse genres, including one written with four hands and in two languages with a Mexican friend. After “Mictlàn”, a black novel, he has just published “Pas de literature!” (La Noire/Gallimard), and he is one of the guests of “Quais du Polar” in Lyon.
“April 1950. Gringoire Centon is a translator for the Black Series. Speaking poor English, he has his wife translate in secret and is content to transpose the result into approximate slang which he learns in disreputable bistros. Desiring to become a writer himself, he lets himself be carried away by a strange American into an incredible affair of literate mobsters, fake manuscripts and real gangsters, against a backdrop of East-West cultural war and the struggle between ancients and moderns for the recomposition of the Parisian environment.” (Presentation of the La Noire collection at Gallimard)
The entire program for the 2022 “Quais du Polar” edition can be found here.