Benoît Reiss

Le petit veilleur

The Little Watchman

February 7, 2019
Novel
112 pages
140 × 180 mm
13 €
9782283031971
978-2-2830-3197-1
																Benoît Reiss, Le petit veilleur
																Benoît Reiss, Le petit veilleur

A poetic and essential text, drawn from the sources of childhood.

In a car with a stranger, towards a destination he doesn’t know, a little boy summons the images of his life. The boarding school, softened by the protective presence of Sophie; the ocean and the beach, opposite the apartment where he lives with his mother. Elusive, she disappears to return day after day more mysterious, more unpredictable. The overly wise child watches over her and dreams of a world where nothing would separate them. But the society prefers the tearing to the disorder...

The author

Benoît Reiss was born in 1976. He studied literature in Lyon and Paris. He worked in educational publishing before moving to Japan in 2007, where he taught French. Since 2017, he has been co-director of Cheyne Editions, with Elsa Pallot. As an author, he published the novel Le petit veilleur with Buchet Chastel in 2019, poetry with Cheyne, and stories including O’Yu, un éloge de l’eau chaude with Esperluète Editions in 2021.

February 7, 2019
Novel
112 pages
140 × 180 mm
13 €
9782283031971
978-2-2830-3197-1