Sinno snow, Vanessa Springora, Camille Kouchner and the curse of the second book – L’Express

Planned obsolescence spares no one, and the past months remind us of it. When the publishers replay the winner winner of the day before, readers do not always follow. Consent had made Vanessa Springora a social phenomenon – to date, this story about its history suffered in adolescence with Gabriel Matzneff sold more than 400,000 copies (large format and cumulative pocket). She may have thought of overtaking the bet thanks to Surnameinvestigation into its family roots published last January. Las, it is only 30,000 copies – a very good score in absolute terms, but which turns out to be disappointing after such success. Snow Sinno knows the same fate. By the depth of his reflection, and at the risk of annoying Christine Angot, Sad tiger (Femina 2023 price, not far from 300,000 copies) is now considered the unsurpassable text on incest. With Realitydisconcerting reverie around the mountains of chiapas, she lost her audience. The book has reached 10,000 copies but should not do much more – sales divided by 30, it is still a hell of a fall …

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At least we can greet his audacity for not having wanted to capitalize on a single theme, and to have tried to take his readers elsewhere. It remains to be seen how Camille Kouchner will get away, whose first novel, Immortalhas just come out. She too had experienced a glance with The big familywhose sales figures are similar to those of Consent. At present, Immortal does not yet appear in our ranking. Meanwhile, unbeatable in 1st place, Sarah Rivens crushes the fictional market with the second volume of Lakestonewhich is already more than 80,000 copies sold and could catch up and even exceed the 300,000 copies of the first volume (which reappears in 9th position). In the field of literature that interests us, only Sylvain Tesson manages to get out of the game (5th with Sea pillars) and the two primaryrooms amber Chalumeau and Adèle Yon continue their way (respectively 11th and 15th with the living and My real name is Elisabeth).

What’s new on the test side? After an show of iron of a few weeks, Giuliano Da Empoli ends up taking over Nicolas Demorand. Behind them, in 3rd place, Salomé Sacé still sells 3,000 copies of Resist Each week, and could at this rate reach 300,000 copies. We also once again salute the good performance of Johann Chaputot, the only historian who is currently experiencing success with The irresponsible. Who brought Hitler to power? (9th this week, with 30,000 copies since the publication of the book). A question occupies us as we finish writing these lines: next week will be released The thirst for shame From Nicolas Bedos, who aims to be the book testimony of redemption. Will he be able to redeem himself? To be continued by the end of May …