Frédéric Ciriez, writing glitter and waste

What does writing standing up mean for a Verticales author? It is a gesture that is simultaneously political and aesthetic, but also a guarantee of a particular editorial hospitality. Frédéric Ciriez’s authorial trajectory illustrates the interplay of dependence and independence that writers face today. It forces us to look at the harm that our era is doing to literature, and to the way in which the writer must face up to it by writing about its glitter and its waste.