They were born in Buenos-Aires, Tokyo or Kabul, in Dakar, Beirut or Saigon. In China, Syria, Bulgaria or Iran... In Moroni, Trois Boutiques
or Stalowa Wola...
Places, countries and lands with no immediate ties to the French language.
Helped by fate, chance, personal or collective history, inspired by their dramas, their loves, their encounters, these authors and their words have traveled.
They all write in French.
A French language inherited, imposed or chosen, with which they have a pragmatic, amorous, conflictual, passionate and creative relationship.
A "mother tongue", "grandmother tongue", "natural", "vital"... Their language!
But why? How do they take hold of this language?
How did they receive it?
How did they take it?
How did they learn it?
How did they shake it up, enrich it, blend it?
These are the itineraries, these traces, that are brought together here.
Bernard Magnier