Arnaud Rykner

Novelist and dramatist Arnaud Rykner has published eight novels (Éditions du Rouergue and Actes Sud) and two plays (Solitaires Intempestifs and Publie.net). After studying at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, he held teaching positions at various universities and is currently a lecturer at Sorbonne Nouvelle. Rykner has worked with Claude Régy as a translator and assistant, and has staged works by Sarraute, Maeterlinck and Koltès.

In this novel, Rykner goes further in his exploration of silence and solitude. Maintaining his perception of literature as an experience of dispossession (for both author and reader), he extends his research, drawing on Japanese culture and spirituality as he experiences this dispossession both in the narrative and the act of writing itself.