by Tanguy Viel · Les Éditions de Minuit · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782707322944
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«La disparition de Jim Sullivan» is the novel by Tanguy Viel, published by Les Éditions de Minuit in paperback (153 pages, in French).
The narrator wants to write an American novel and sets the action in Detroit and the Great Lakes, at the wheel of an old Dodge. Dwayne Koster, a fifty-year-old divorced university professor, has Susan, his ex-wife, with a lover he detests. The novel plays with the clichés of American literature and cinema with irony.
The novel was first published in 2013; it corresponds to Dewey notation 843/.914 and LC classification PQ2682.I316 D57 2013.
For readers interested in contemporary French narrative and in play with the codes of the American novel and cinema.
Tanguy Viel is a French writer. A resident at the Villa Médicis in 2003–2004, Tanguy Viel was awarded the Prix Fénéon and the Prix littéraire de la vocation for his novel L'absolue perfection du crime. He also won the Grand prix RTL-Lire for Article 353 du Code pénal in 2017. Other Press in New York published the translation by William Rodarmor in March, 2019. La fille qu'on appelle was one of nine novels in the second selection for the 2021 Prix Goncourt.
