Patrick Autréaux

L’époux

The Husband

March 6, 2025
Novel
9782073090324
978-2-0730-9032-4
This book is co-published with Labor et Fides

“Sygne” collection

																Patrick Autréaux, L’époux
																Patrick Autréaux, L’époux

A powerful declaration of love, L’Époux captures the elusive nature of human experience.

On their wedding day at the town hall, no family is present. One is far away; the other refuses to accept the union. The narrator watches his partner cry. Everything comes rushing back—years of silence, of enduring, of swallowing unspoken words. As he retraces the thread of his own story, weaving it with his husband’s Jewish heritage, he draws us into the paradoxes of desire and the peace that emerges when it finally finds its home. But also into a spiritual quest: how does one stop believing in God without losing the sense of infinity that seems to dwell within?

The author

Patrick Autréaux was born in 1968. He practiced emergency psychiatry until 2006. Author of a dozen books and numerous articles on art and literature, he lives between Paris and Cambridge, USA. In residence at Boston University in 2018 and 2019, he created his literature seminar: “Through a writer’s eye”.

Strong points

A moving declaration of love, L’Époux explores the elusive nature of human experience.

Drawing from the autobiographical story of his marriage, Patrick Autréaux embarks on an intimate and spiritual exploration of passionate love and desire, the relationship with literature, and faith in writing.

A brilliant and erudite narrative, written in a subtle and elegant style—both analytical and poetic, precise and evocative.

The continuation of a body of work that, for fifteen years, has formed a magnificent literary and mystical quest.

March 6, 2025
Novel
9782073090324
978-2-0730-9032-4
This book is co-published with Labor et Fides

“Sygne” collection