The interviewer receives Claro in "Plumard", his monthly literary program on Brutx.An opportunity to take stock of how, over the years and supports, he has invented and imposed his style.
He absolutely wants to pay our two cafes.We refuse.He insists.We suddenly realize: he always wants to master everything.We point out to him.He sighs: "Yes, that's my drama".
We attended the recording of Plumard, his monthly literary program on Brutx.Since the first issue almost a year ago, the device has not changed: Augustin Trapenard receives on a sofa, but each time in a different place - and often improbable.For Florence Aubenas, it was a roundabout.In April, he invited Claro in an art printing house on the side of Montparnasse.The writer and translator has just published in other forms we will come back, at the Seuil.He was able, over a long time, talk about him, his work, his relationship to literature and the French language.Trapenard did not take him away for a single second.
Recording lasted several hours.Boomerang producer, where for 8 years every morning on France Inter he receives artists and writer, wet his shirt.We saw him slalom between specific questions and improvisation, moments of humor or emotion, surrounded by his close guard, team of pros who seem just as enthusiastic as him.Finally installed on the terrace after what could be similar to a theatrical performance, Trapenard tells, without catching his breath, the passion he puts in his profession as an interviewer.
For a season of radio and TV, working on a streaming platform supposes a certain sense of adaptation.When Trapenard dropped Canal - “For reasons, we will say, political” - arriving in Brutx was a challenge: “redoing TV elsewhere would have meant apply the same recipes.There, it was to think differently about the image ”.Already, about Plumard, rather than Trapenard program prefers the term "literary series", where each issue is designed as an episode.He explains for a long time reflecting on the various ways of image literature.First there was a column on Canal + in the Grand Journal, then the Circle, and 21 cm exclusively devoted to literature, today Plumard but also on Brutlive a weekly meeting with readers.For each of these formats, Trapenard thinks renewal.Plumard seeks to challenge the static side of the classic interview.We were able, during the recording with Claro, to note the inventiveness of the staging in order to instill modernity in a codified genre.“Putting books involves a strategy, tricks, and all my work is there,” sums up Trapenard.
Above all, here the public is between 20 and 35 years old, his relationship to books is not the same as in previous generations.Which means rethinking the exercise of the interview, without lowering the level of requirement.Trapenard could see that social, feminist, political questions, which he approached with guests like Céline Sciamma, Faïza Guène, Abd Al Malik, Jean-Baptiste Del Amo, Chloé Delaume, are very present in the concerns ofthe youth.“The public of Brutx is eager for meaning.We must offer him quality programs, in any case this is what I try to do.We never get out of things downwards.There is a political rebirth in this youth ”.
It remains to be understood how the extremely well oiled machine works that constitutes any interview with Trapenard.Each plumard issue is turned in one go and without interruption, thus arise unforeseen events, even if the questions are very thought of in advance."They will be challenged by the time of the interview," he sums up.We will keep what comes out of the driver, because this is where things happen ”.Thus is emerging a style, a mixture of cool and requirement, carried by a very sharp reflection on literature, resulting from his years of study at Normale-Sup.Even if he admits having changed since his inception: "I have a more political relationship to my work, I am aware of being part of a trade, that of journalists.I defend a mission.This dimension, I did not have it at all when I started, I was completely west ".
It was then that the waitress interrupts us and that he absolutely wants to pay the cafes.He is pointed out that, with all his diplomas and this professional mastery, he could one day de-stress.Impossible, it has been like that since childhood: "Getting out of the norm is not very reassuring.I was a child who read a lot, spoke little, did not have many friends.I was gay and in the extremely bourgeois environment in which I grew up, it was not necessarily very obvious.I was lucky to be accompanied and not to undergo deeds of hatred, but I have always been a little away.This anxiety, I think, comes from there.I do not complain, concern is what allows you to do things.When you are too good, we are collapsing ”.It is also in this lonely childhood that his passion for reading was forged."As soon as I read, I developed an obsession, an addictive report in writing".We would like him to define what is, basically, the trapenard style, this tone which is his signature on all the media where he has gone.He explains it with a word: "emotion".And what makes the difference between his work and that of other famous interviewers?“I am more fragile”.
Plumard with claro.April 18 on Brutx.
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