Par Alice Develey
Published on 01/31/2024 at 4:10 p.m., Updated on 02/01/2024 at 10:47 a.m.
Thomas Schlesser, the history of art told as a novel. ©Roberto Frankenberg
PORTRAIT – The director of the Hartung-Bergman foundation, publishes a novel on art coveted by publishers around the world… Although it has just been published.
It’s an earthquake. An earthquake in the publishing world. Thomas Schlesser. Remember this name carefully. The author has not yet sold a copy of his novel Mona’s Eyes that it is already a global success. China, United States, Germany… The whole world is panicking over this Frenchman’s manuscript. “An extremely rare phenomenon! exclaims Nicolas de Cointet, the editor of the novel released yesterday by Albin Michel. Prestigious publishing houses from dozens of countries sent us application files, worthy of a literary blockbuster, to take away the rights to the book. We have just signed for 27 languages. Some 26,000 copies have already been published by us and a major family film is under discussion… It’s a fairy tale.”
Nicolas de Cointet remembers the emotion he felt when reading the manuscript. “It was a lovely spring Saturday and I had barely opened the book when I devoured it: love at first sight. I was captivated by the story and the quality…
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