Colette Fellous's 'Avenue de France' Blends Life and Fiction

Colette Fellous's new book 'Avenue de France' published by Éditions Gallimard merges life and fiction, centering on death and love. The narrative explores the author's Tunisian origins and French adoption, framed as a single day measuring a century. Fellous describes the work as both a book and a life, a novel that immerses in the flow of time. Death appears through loved ones—grandfather, father, uncle, brother—while love counterbalances it. The author provocatively asks if her recent lovemaking is visible, asserting its continuous presence in the text. Critic Jacques Henric notes the writing communicates a strange fever and peace.