Mathieu Belezi, whose real name is Gérard-Martial Princeau, is a French novelist.
His prose is characterized by a tense language, punctuated by anaphora, leitmotivs and sentences with almost no punctuation, where voices overlap in a harsh breath. Through this breathless polyphony, he turns colonization into an inner theater, grotesque and tragic, of singular intensity. In "Cantique du chaos" (Canticle of Chaos), published in 2025 by Éditions Robert Laffont, he offers us a philosophical novel, a text to reflect on human violence, the possible excesses of a totalitarian regime, and the end of the world. Through the character of a desperado, this road-movie analyzes our times and sublimates them through literature.
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His prose is characterized by a tense language, punctuated by anaphora, leitmotivs and sentences with almost no punctuation, where voices overlap in a harsh breath. Through this breathless polyphony, he turns colonization into an inner theater, grotesque and tragic, of singular intensity. In "Cantique du chaos" (Canticle of Chaos), published in 2025 by Éditions Robert Laffont, he offers us a philosophical novel, a text to reflect on human violence, the possible excesses of a totalitarian regime, and the end of the world. Through the character of a desperado, this road-movie analyzes our times and sublimates them through literature.
A rendez-vous with a major author on the French literary scene!
Admission is free.