Philippe Gerin
From 16 September to 14 October 2022

Philippe Gerin was born in Saint-Étienne, France, and lives and works in Brittany. He finished his first novel, Du haut de la décharge sauvage(LNA, 2013), during a yearlong sabbatical on the shores of the Baltic Sea, and has just published his third book, La mélancolie des baleines(Gaïa, 2021). Through the journeys of lame yet radiant characters, he explores such themes as attachment, the painful reality of being wrenched from others or from certain places, and the impermanence of the world.