Serge Joncour, 2015 laureate - Catherine Mathivat, President of Deux Magots - Pierre Adrian, laureate of the 2016 Deux Magots Literary Prize - Photo: DR

Tuesday, January 26, 2016, Catherine Mathivat, President of Deux Magots and the members of the Jury had the pleasure of awarding in the mythical café-restaurant on Place Saint-Germain-des-Près, the 83rd Prix des Deux Magots to Pierre Adrian for his novel - the first! - “La Piste Pasolini”, published by Editions des Equateurs.

The 10 members of the jury present elected the winner Pierre Adrian in the 1st round 7 votes against 3 votes to Thomas B. REVERDY "There was a city".

Pierre Adrian, winner of the 2016 Deux Magots Literary Prize - Photo: DR

At 23, Pierre Adrian leaves for Italy in the footsteps of an elusive and fascinating writer: Pier Paolo Pasolini.

From "empty and infinite Friuli" to wanderings in Rome and its "brakeless nights", he sniffs, feels this life on the surface, against all the clichés. Magnificent when he provokes society, Pasolini has not stopped shaking up preconceived ideas. Forty years after his assassination, he remains alive to the point of burning us.

First detractor of televisions and everyday life, he attacks the consumer society, praises the joys of football and pastoral life, rebels against the lukewarm bourgeoisie, the feelings instituted, and strives to desecrate everything . To get closer to the sacred.

A travelogue as close as possible to Pasolini, an embodied inquiry, but also the quest for a brother, a master, a "leader of souls, leader of our little lost souls in the new century".
And the discovery of a very young talented writer, still a student of history, to follow ...

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