by Laurent Nunez · Actes Sud Editions · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782330153878
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«Le mode avion» is the novel by Laurent Nunez, published by Actes Sud in paperback (213 pages, in French).
The novel follows the tragicomic ordeal of Étienne Choulier and Stefán Meinhof, two hermit linguists who await the flash of genius while envying each other to the point of a fateful duel. They promise each other to reveal unsuspected treasures of the French language and bequeath to posterity new theories of language, as unexpected as they are memorable.
The cover bears the subtitle «roman». This is the first edition, published on 18 August 2021.
For readers of contemporary French fiction interested in language and in tragicomic portraits of intellectual ambition.
