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La invención del mundo

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Faire tenir le monde dans un livre, ou tout au moins une journée du monde, celle de l'équinoxe de printemps de l'année 1989 : telle est l'ambition de ce roman qui se veut à la fois réaliste et délirant.

Des milliers de personnages vivent et meurent dans ces pages, des centaines d'histoires et de lieux s'y croisent. Projet absurde, mégalomane ? Il se peut, mais l'auteur ne croit pas que la littérature soit faite pour être nécessairement raisonnable ou modeste.

567 pages, Paperback

First published August 27, 1993

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Olivier Rolin

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Olivier Rolin spent his childhood in Senegal. He then studied at the Louis-le-Grand high school and the Ecole Normale Superieure. He graduated in philosophy and literature.

He works as a freelancer of the French paper Libération and Le Nouvel Observateur. He was the companion of the singer Jane Birkin.

His work is inspired by May 68 and the proletarian Left, romantic adventures in Arabia, the writers Rimbaud and Conrad and his travels.

He received the "Prix Femina" for Port Sudan in 1994, the "Prix France Culture" for Tiger Paper in 2003 and the "price of Style" for The Meteorologist just now in 2014.

He's the brother of the also writer Jean Rolin

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Écriture fractale, borgésienne, rimbaldienne, ce livre est un poème immense…
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