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C’était un poisson volant, une sirène et un hippopotame. Il avait vécu dans un foyer de jeunes travailleurs. Son enfance était une plaie ouverte. Autodidacte et lecteur frénétique, il était entré en littérature comme en religion. Son premier livre, La vision dans l’île, donnait la sensation physique qu’un animal vous sautait au visage. Il écrivait sur des feuilles volantes qu’il collait sur les murs. Il ne buvait pas en gourmand, mais en barbare. Il avait un tempérament de prêcheur. Il avait séjourné dans un hôpital psychiatrique. Il se préparait à être mort très longtemps.
Qui était Julien Mana, assassiné d’un coup de couteau, au matin du 10 avril 2022 ? Sept hommes et femmes, qui l’ont côtoyé à divers moments de sa vie, prennent la parole.
He was a flying fish, a mermaid and a hippopotamus. He had lived in a hostel for young workers. He was self-taught and a voracious reader. His childhood was an open wound. He entered literature as if it were religion. His first book, La Vision dans l'île, gave the physical sensation of an animal jumping in your face. He believed in merit and rituals. He wrote on loose sheets of paper that he would put up everywhere. He didn't drink like a connoisseur, but like a barbarian. He had the temperament of a preacher. He had been committed to a psychiatric hospital. He felt he was being followed. He was preparing to be dead for a very long time. He saw signs on the walls.
Who was Julien Mana, found stabbed to death in a courtyard on the morning of the first round of the 2022 presidential election? Seven characters speak out after his death, and offer their contradictory accounts.
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