Prix Médicis めでぃしすしょう
Edition 62 (2017, held 3 times in year)
Fiction (French-language works)Translated works (Prix Médicis étranger)Essay/Non-fiction (Prix Médicis essai)
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1 peopleA novel that moves between cinema and literature, mixing exaggeration and humor to explore obsession, madness, and desire for art. Its dreamlike schemes make the narrator’s fixation and faith in fiction especially vivid.
Obsession with creation expands into a strange and theatrical scheme.
336 pages
literaturefilmmadnesscreationself-inquiry