Article published in “Le Nouvel Observateur” of November 27, 2008.
We knew the political and cultural columnist, his vivacity. We had no idea how far the love of the theater would lead the former press boss: at 80, Philippe Tesson is launching an anthology of French theater in five volumes. Meeting with this fiery publisher on the occasion of the publication of the first volume, dedicated to the 19th century.
Journalist Philippe Tesson dies at 94
The new observer. What makes you run to the theater in the evening without ever giving up, despite your many activities? And now makes you become a publisher?
Philippe Tesson. It’s banal: a fascination that goes back to childhood for dramatic literature and what it brings back from the truth of life, for a spoken literature that often can take on an excess that I don’t necessarily find in the romantic genre. . And then this magic of the theater, where a word said by an actor can generate an explosion of emotions, an effervescence of the whole being. The end of my adolescence coincided with the appearance of Gérard Philipe, and I would have liked to be Gérard Philipe! I studied literature and saw
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