Blondin, the cult of friendship and writers

Born in Paris on April 11, 1922, died on June 7, 1991, the author ofA monkey in winter leaves behind him the image of a whimsical author and a poignant and melancholic work. Back on the journey of a disenchanted poet.

“The truth is that my work does not respond to a need, nor to a very deep vocation. He never wrote except to please his friends. Europe truant is dedicated to André Fraigneau; Julien Guernec and Michel Deon are thanked there. The bar man needs pillars. Marcel Ayme is his guardian. They met in a bookstore, had a drink at La Rhumerie Martiniquaise. One day, carried away by their conversation, they got on a bus before realizing, on getting off at the terminus, that neither of them had any reason to take it. The same taste for fantasy unites them. Twenty years his senior, the author of Wall pass holds Antoine for a kind of spiritual son. He will devote a long series to it in The Parisian and will pass…