Who would be wary of Nathan, the narrator of Philippe Djian’s new novel? We would give him the good Lord without confession. Nathan is a journalist. Devoted, he spends himself without counting on others. He is the ideal son-in-law. Through him, Djian has fun deceiving our expectations, pushing the codes of the noir novel to the limit. At the limit, because it never becomes parodic: its elegance is to know how to stay in an in-between.
