Prix du Roman du jeune étudiant - A look back at the evening

November 28, 2022 - A look back at the Young Student Novel Award evening

Author Claire Baglin was on hand on Monday November 28 at 6pm in the Faculty of Science to talk about her novel "En salle", published by Editions de Minuit.

During the evening, the writer was interviewed by UM students, and was able to talk directly to the audience, both in person and by videoconference.

To see this demonstration and the interview, please visit the following link:https://youtu.be/M02f2_efV-I

His first novel, selected by France Culture and Télérama, takes an original approach to the theme of fast food work.

On a children's menu, you'll find a well-wrapped burger, fries, a drink, sauces, a toy - the stuff of dreams. And then, a few years later, you're preparing orders at the drive-thru, wiping tables, obeying managers: you're working at a fast-food restaurant. In two alternating narratives, the narrator of En salle recounts this gap. On the one hand, a childhood marked by the figure of a working-class father. On the other, her twenties in a fast-food restaurant, where she encounters repetitive gestures, a body put to the test, emptiness and alienation.

Claire Baglin was born in 1998. En salle is her first novel.