Simon Liberati is a Performance by himself. A 62-year-old journalist, happy to touch on everything, coupled with a prolific novelist often rewarded. This new novel, published at the very beginning of the literary season, is no exception. His pitch is simple: a septuagenarian writer damaged by drugs and alcohol reconnects with the sacred fire by writing a script for a series on the Rolling Stones (era 1967-1969) while maintaining a passionate relationship with his beautiful daughter, much more young than him.
Simon Liberati is obviously recognizable in this portrait of a character crazy about music whose adventures in life find an echo in that of the mythical group.
The fear of losing another
Our contributing reader, the writer Christian Dorsan, read this book with admiration. “We do not read Simon Liberati, we devour him or we reject him, he wrote in his column published at the end of August. There are no nuances in the writing of this genius who perpetuates the legend of the accursed poets, a mixture of romanticism and punk. »
For our reader, this novel takes an amused and disillusioned look at our time, while offering a reflection on the acceptance of the time of the past. “Simon Liberati finds bridges of commonality between the old age doomed to failure of his character and the malaise of guitarist Brian Jones who died in 1969 in disturbing circumstances”, he writes. Two beings tortured by the fear of the loss of the other.