Επιμέλεια: Εύα Πετροπούλου Λιανού
Interview Timothée Bordenave from Paris, France
Please share your thoughts about the future of literature.
Thanks for asking me ! The future of literature ? I know already so few about it’s past, although I am definitely a reader, well this is a difficult question. Then I hope it will be bright, I hope that literacy in the first place, then education too, can strengthen, to let the literary creations improve !
There are two visible trends, from my perspective here in France today, that would be first the establishment of the auto fiction as a dominant genre, then the come-back of poetry. These two currents are likely to keep on increasing in the near future I presume. Also, maybe, will we hopefully see a growth of the « grey-literature », as it’s often called : the scientific and research books, directly linked to universities or institutions.
When you start writing?
Very soon in the course of my life. There’s a sad thing to me here that is that I have lost, or have not here now with me, let’s say, most of my childhood or youth age’s verses, stories, researches… I think that I have lost more than a thousand of pages, this is bitter. Yet, as long as now I am meeting with more success, and I have gained the confidence in some publishing houses, well I will keep on working as much as I can.
The Good and the Bad. Who is winning in nowadays?
There clearly is a battle, a wrestle, between the good and the bad, as much as possibly always it has been a part of humanity, but with a scope, a range, that is new today because maybe the wrestling is intense. I am confident in the victory of good. Eventually ! As the sacred texts from all different religions prophesied, as far as I know.
Then we have to be very proactive, very cautious too, and we sure need to prepare for this fight to be long. Endurance, in strength, and with intelligence for a better good !
How many books have you written And where can we find your books?
So, I am working now on number 23 and number 24. There’s also a full translation upon one of my English poetry books, that’s undergoing at present. The count will soon be 25, hopefully. I have 22 books available, right now.
You could find them online, for many of them, still distributed, as hard copies or as electronic books. Online, I have seen this recently, you can also easily find some books of mine in « second hand ». If you want to buy a copy, check for my name in your favorite search engine. They are easy to find really.
The book. E book or Hardcover book What will be the future?
The two of them will be inseparable one from the other, for a long time, I would say. As a professional librarian myself, I can only advocate for the hard covers copies and also, I can advise people to keep some books, in a collection, at their homes. The physical books are of a great value, when some time passes. This will likely be a trend in the future too, I presume.
A wish for 2025
So, in the year to come 2025 ? I wish, and I pray as much as I can, for a better peace, along with more understanding, tolerance, intelligence, in the world !
How could we hope or wish otherwise I would say, this is a logical fact that prosperity and happiness, are directly sourced in peace and social stability. There’s also a fact that is true : humanity will always benefit from the exchanges and the benevolent relations between us men and women.
I wish this good might happen !
A phrase from your book Or A book you like.
«Little by little, let a bird nestle…»
French proverb.
Thank you so much...
Thank you, absolutely too, dear Eva, dear Polis Magazino ! I love Greece ! I wish I could come back, one day soon.
Biography: I was born on January 1984. Soon after my literary general high school, I studied for a while in London, then obtained a law degree in France, in Paris. After this I studied again for a while the Library Sciences. I directed two research libraries ! Meanwhile I was writing and painting a lot. Today I am a full time creative, I have published many books of fiction, essay, and poetry. I am also an international artist as a painter.
