Le Palais de la fatigue

A boy and his brother in the suburbs adopt a bear with a severed paw. A young man who dreams of poetry enters literary circles guided by a mentor. A middle-aged man goes camping with his brother and nephew and tells the boy the story of the bear they took in as children, along with that of their Welsh ancestors. A writer is shaken to see a friend, a photographer of great talent, decide to put an end to his work. These six stories form a meditation on creation: how stories are born, how they pass through families and siblings and shape our lives, and why one decides to write them down, or to fall silent.

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About the book

Form

Short stories

Length

138 pages in the original

First published

2017 by Éditions du Boréal

Author's age

58 when first published

ISBN

9782764624685 (original)