«Jássouvis nos fantasies : those of the reader and mine», a conversation with Pierre Michon

A new Michon is never annoyed — on the contrary. Only two years after the publication of Les Deux Beune, J'écris l'Iliade (Gallimard) confirms this rule. The fourteen texts that make up this book are a new tornado of style, images, stories of which only the author of tiny Lives has the secret. We navigate in a permanent game that mixes autofiction, myths, desires, Borges, Sicily, Paris, Homer — that is, Pierre Michon. The good incipits often ann…