by Xavier Hanotte · Belfond · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782714403834
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«Le feu des lucioles» is the novel by Xavier Hanotte, published by Belfond in paperback (212 pages, in French).
In 1944, the poet Keith Douglas dies in Normandy and Sergeant Frédéric Dutrieux disappears in Deauville. Forty years later, a young namesake, author of a thesis on Douglas, does his military service near Antwerp and doubts his link with the past. The novel blends magical realism and historical precision about the memory of war.
Set in the 1980s, this coming-of-age novel includes an epilogue by the writer Éric Faye.
Aimed at the general public, it will appeal to readers of literary fiction and stories about the Second World War.
Xavier Hanotte is a Belgian writer. He was born in Mont-sur-Marchienne in 1960. He lives near Brussels. He studied the German language and entered a literary career through translation. He translated Dutch authors such as Hubert Lampo, and was particularly attached to the young English poet, Wilfred Owen, who died in 1918 a few days before the armistice. With Manière Noire, published in 1995, Hanotte commenced a romantic cycle around the character of Barthelemy Dussert, a Brussels police inspector who would become the literary alter ego of the writer. Dussert also appeared in De secrètes injustices (1998), Le Couteau de Jenufa (2008), and Derrière la colline which takes place on the Somme front during the First World War, and features a young poet named Nigel Parsons. The Great War also forms the backdrop of Lieux communs (2002). The 2010 novel Feux fragiles dans la nuit qui vient, set in an imaginary country, was compared to the work of Julien Gracq and Dino Buzzati.
