Voyage au bout de l'Éden. Conte philosophique. Préface de Norbert Multeau

Jean Taousson is a true writer. He proved it with Adieu Roumi, a story of the Algerian War full of revelations about episodes that official history carefully forgets to relate.

In Jacques Derrida, mes potes et moi, he portrays a football buddy who was none other than the famous inventor of deconstruction, the most idolized and controversial intellectual since the Enlightenment. Nothing was supposed to bring these two Algerians together, except for the love of the round ball.

In Voyage au bout de l'Eden, the hero, Guiscard Destin, dies in a car accident. But having escaped the administration directed by Saint Peter at the gates of Paradise, he wanders without a visa through the centuries.

In this science fiction novel in the form of a settling of scores since the appearance of man on earth, one plays petanque with Jesus Christ and Yves Montand, lives a brief romance with Joan of Arc, and converses with Socrates, Diogenes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, or Napoleon Bonaparte. One defeats the greatest boxing champions and relegates General de Gaulle and his clique to a distant constellation. One defeats the maneuvers of migrants who want to turn France into a halal country.

Jean Taousson gives us a philosophical tale that is reminiscent of both Voltaire and the Marx Brothers. It is a masterpiece of humor with the impoliteness of despair. - Frederic Musso