Yann Moix's last novel, Naissance, is a book outside of genres, the author wrote in "absolute immunity". The fantasy directing his writing understood this book would be if not unreadable (illisible), at least "unread"("illu"). And so, with this book conceived as "a suite of dead end paths", the author approaches the real of language in an unprecedented way. Abolishing "all contradiction", he makes of this book an absolute beginning and its author a freedman of literary history.

Naissance claims in this way the exit from meaning, the reader's wandering so long as he himself, feels the total loneliness destined for speaking beings.

This man, who received blows as a child and then attracted those of the critics for too long, gained laurels from all with this book.

What changed between these moments ? Yann Moix's relation to the real, certainly changed. This time, he wrote from his absolute difference.

Translation revised by David Hafner