Talk:Tony Duvert

A translation of parts of referenced articles on his death, maybe to elaborate a bit on the terse mention of his death in the main article:

(from lemonde.fr) He quit life as he had lived: alone, adrift. This indifference would not have displeased him. His body was found a few days ago, at his home in Thoré-la-Rochette (Loir-et-Cher) but he who was not really of this world anymore since long was already death for more than a month. The investigation should confirm a natural death. At 63, he was said to be exhausted. Without any more detail because few were those who had been able to encounter him or even simply talk to him, since he had chosen inner exile and a form of reclusion many years ago. Because he had published nothing since 1989 (even if he was still writing) and he didn't "appear" in any sense of the word, the literary world had deducted that he probably died at the end of the 20th century. (...) Tony Duvert was animated by the demon of purity. Absolute and without compromise. That's why, when he still lived in society, he scared off. People feared his brutal frankness, his total failure to cover behind lie, his sternness, his angers, his violence and his ability to make a scandal in public for an error of musical judgement, a wrong subjunctive or a manifest lack of literary judgement. Not employed and feeding little, he lived in a state of great poverty. At the end, isolated in his village where he didn't even talk to one of the other 879 villagers (his mother, with whom he had lived, died about ten years ago), he preferred nature above all, and the frequentation of animals above that of humans. This summer, since the misanthrope's mailbox overflowed, an intrigued neighbour informed the mayor who alerted the gendarmerie of Vendôme. The solitary man, whom villagers among them called "the writer", was dead since several weeks.

(from la Nouvelle République) Tony Duvert was found dead at his home in Thoré-la-Rochette. On Wednesday 20 August, a neighbour remarks that the mailbox flows over. In this village of 880 inhabitants, almost nobody knows Tony Duvert, but he is known as solitary. Being sedentary, his absence surprises his neighbour. He warns the mayor, who immediately alerts the gendarmerie of Vendôme. Once arrived, the gendarmes get no answer and call up the fire departement to break a window and get in the home. There they find the body of Tony Duvert, deceased (according to them) since more than a month. The 63 year-old man lived alone, had no known occupation in the village nor family on the spot. No marks of violence at the scene, the first elements of the investigation suggest a natural decease. Death having been noted, the corpse is transferred to the medical-legal institute for autopsy. (...) He publishes nothing anymore from 1989 on and comes to live with his mother, who died since then, at Thoré-la-Rochette, he who asserted in a 1979 interview with Libération that one had to "withdraw children from women". Tony Duvert was found yesterday, after having secluded for years because of the incompatibility of his vision with 21st century morals. "I dedicate this memory to the bastards who today preach to me “respect” for the minor. One-eyed moralists, I've been it, this minor, and I've suffered it, that respect. » (extract from « L'Enfant au masculin », essay, 1980).