Member of Oulipo, prolific writer author of poetic collections, epistolaries, travel news and essays, Hervé Le Tellier won the Goncourt prize with an original and offbeat book: "L'Anomalie".
Hervé LE TELLIER, is the guest of the show on the occasion of the publication of his last book "La Chapelle Sextine", a collection of erotic short stories. A member of Oulipo, a working group bringing together mathematicians, writers, some scholars and members of the pataphysics college, Hervé LE TELLIER talks about the exercise of constraint that he imposes himself in writing as did Georges PEREC, one of the founders of the movement.
What is writing for Hervé LE TELLIER? The author explains why he writes and his interest in the French language but also in foreign languages such as Inupiaq, spoken in northern Alaska, which implies a different way of thinking about the world.
On the occasion of the reissue of his book "Le voleur de nostalgie", Hervé LE TELLIER speaks of the principle of construction of this epistolary novel and summarizes the plot.
In Clermont-Ferrand, on the occasion of the public recording of the literary program of France Culture "Des Papous dans la tête", the writer Hervé LE TELLIER gives his definition of a papou: a man or a woman who must respond in a very limited time to a command given to him... and who must provoke in the listener the appearance of a small complicit smile on the lips.