David Grann, the AS of Epic – Liberation

These three stories by David Grann are stories of real disappearances and they are essentially going on where they finish: in Guatemala, in Cuba, in Amazon. Who says disappearance, says research: the American writer leaves in the footsteps of the dead with the manic and playful stubbornness of which they were not devoid of. Most of his texts, he writes, « Have one thing in common: obsession. They speak of ordinary people who have to do extraordinary things, unthinkable things for a large majority of us, they speak of people devoured by an idea that has germinated in their heads. ” They are adventurers, murderers, explorers, great manipulators too. Grann adds: “I always believed that my interest in this type of individual was purely professional: good customers, they made the best papers. However, I sometimes ask me if I don’t look like them more than I want to believe it. ” He was 42 years old when he wrote these lines. It is a good age to be lucid about yourself.

The first two stories have already been published by Allia editions; The third and the most important, at Robert Laffont in 2010. Reviews assembled by Editions du Sousquer in a big book, Tête Bêche (two on one side, one on the other, with double coverage), as in a two-seater hammock on which fall in leeches: information.