Jean-Pierre Ancèle

Au rendez-vous des Pas-pareils

At the Rendez-vous of The Differents

March 3, 2022
Novel
224 pages
140 × 200 mm
18,50 €
9782752912572
978-2-7529-1257-2
																Jean-Pierre Ancèle, Au rendez-vous des Pas-pareils
																Jean-Pierre Ancèle, Au rendez-vous des Pas-pareils

Jean-Pierre Ancèle’s first novel is as tender as it is tasty, like a glass of muscadet, with some accents of Raymond Queneau and Marcel Aymé.

Once upon a time, there was a small café, between the city and the country, a refuge for a handful of strange people that the modern world had not yet swallowed up.

In this place we can find Madoval, the boss, Mésange, his daughter, Comdinitch, Failagueule, and the people who sit at the bar. But we can also find friendship, laughter, humanity and a certain talent for cultivating difference.

The author

I was born at 17, the year of Woodstock and John Wesley Harding.
A little later I met Laurette Véza who passed on to me the subtle taste of poetry.
A little later (not much), I met Masamichi Noro who transmitted to me the subtle taste of Japanese spirals.
Then, dressed as a teacher, camped next to a magic lantern, I summoned on my little stage the dear ghosts of Shakespeare, William Blake, Hemingway, Joyce, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Richard Brautigan, and many others.
Who knows if I’ve given a handful of students a subtle taste of their art?
Today I am looking for the formula for the subtle elixir of writing.
Sometimes it’s a twist.

Cheers!

March 3, 2022
Novel
224 pages
140 × 200 mm
18,50 €
9782752912572
978-2-7529-1257-2