A book by Thomas Clerc Presentation of Cave
Shortly after the publication of Intérieur, a methodical description of his apartment, Thomas Clerc realized that he had forgotten one room: the cellar. He then went to the basement of his building and discovered, behind the dilapidated walls, a secret passage.
Cave is a mental descent into the world of sex. A kind of brain porn, if the genre existed.
« Let us be reassured, Thomas Clerc is not a writer who repeats himself! He never does the same thing again, pushing back, with ironic discretion, the limits of his own literary territory, experiencing, each time deeply and frankly, another form, another discourse. Because the « cellar » that Thomas Clerc explores, full of the same half-rotten and useless clutter as everyone else’s, does not simply conceal a few vague trinkets that bring back memories or make one wonder about oneself… No, it opens onto a secret passage, a sort of wink to Alice, which leads the narrator into an extraordinary dreamlike adventure placed under the somewhat frightening patronage of Orpheus and Eurydice… »
Hugo Pradelle, « Les souterrains de Thomas Clerc », En attendant Nadeau, September 8, 2021
