Gallimard, 2025
To be released in March 2025 by Éditions Gallimard (Paris), in collaboration with Éditions Labor & Fides (Geneva).
On the day of their wedding at the town hall, no family is present. One is far away, the other refuses this union. The narrator watches his companion cry. Everything resurfaces, many years of silence, of suffering, of swallowing the unsaid.
Tracing the thread of his own story, weaving it with that of his husband’s Judaism, the narrator leads us into the paradoxes of desire and towards the peace that emerges when we find our home port. But also into a spiritual quest: how can we no longer believe in God without killing the infinity that we think we feel within ourselves?
A moving declaration of love, L’Époux explores the elusive at human height.
Patrick Autréaux continues here his Constat cycle, begun with La Sainte de la famille (Verdier).