MEETING - Hosted by: Catherine Pont-Humbert - Duration: 1 hour.
A MAGNIFICENT LOSER with Florence Seyvos.
At the heart of a family in full implosion, the atypical stepfather captures all the attention. A mythomaniac, spendthrift, capricious, suicidal, generous, elegant, homeless, sincere, a liar, enthusiastic, depressive, Jacques is all of these things at once. Between France and the Ivory Coast, he drags the narrator, her sister Irène, and their mother into a whirlwind that will ultimately kill him. In A Magnificent Loser, Florence Seyvos succeeds in capturing the ambivalence of this mysterious character
who haunts her, with the blend of modesty and violence that is his trademark. Author of novels published by L’Olivier (Le garçon incassable, Une bête aux aguets…), books for young people and also screenplays co-written with director Noémie Lvovsky, she received the Prix du livre Inter 2025 for this book.
At the heart of a family in full implosion, the atypical stepfather captures all the attention. A mythomaniac, spendthrift, capricious, suicidal, generous, elegant, homeless, sincere, a liar, enthusiastic, depressive, Jacques is all of these things at once. Between France and the Ivory Coast, he drags the narrator, her sister Irène, and their mother into a whirlwind that will ultimately kill him. In A Magnificent Loser, Florence Seyvos succeeds in capturing the ambivalence of this mysterious character
who haunts her, with the blend of modesty and violence that is his trademark. Author of novels published by L’Olivier (Le garçon incassable, Une bête aux aguets…), books for young people and also screenplays co-written with director Noémie Lvovsky, she received the Prix du livre Inter 2025 for this book.
