Un jour dans la vie: Preparation of the Novel in Laurent Mauvignier and Tanguy Viel

Abstract

Un jour dans la vie by Laurent Mauvignier and Tanguy Viel are two short texts published in 2010 by the Passages bookstore in Lyon, marking the tenth anniversary of the bookstore run by Françoise Charriau and Erik Fitoussi. As Erik Fitoussi mentions in the preface accompanying this publication, it was a “precious gift” offered to the bookstore’s readers, who were fondly named “Passages”. Françoise Charriau also speaks in her preface about “stories of friendship,” “encounters,” and “complicity.” This study aims to be a modest “postface” to the micro-stories of Viel and Mauvignier: What is a day in the life of a writer? Of course, the everyday. But also, a unique way of questioning life, family memory, historical and social memory, which make up that life and lead to a certain “passage” between words and things.