Biography

Born in 1978, Loïc Merle lived in Lyon, Paris and in Germany, where he spent six years and decided to write.

“This evening, however, and whereas all in him appeared to be definitively ploughed up, he seemed to be able to visit its own catacombs, without this experiment having anything insupportable: he peacefully contemplated his more solid foundations, the whole of his small deaths and the stacking of craniums, he made the turn of the pillars which had supported his years - today a certain anguish had ended, and he did not remain any more in the world high and solidified values which nothing but do remain with identical and where one died as one had lived, in the veneration of weighting, the merit, the family, blood and about the nations…”

“Ambitious, this novel speaks about great dreams and small counted steps. And this title, “l’esprit de l’ivresse”, represents what remains in our spirits when one does not manage any more to accept the following days: a memory, a vague dizzy spell. That he speaks with the first anybody or lets a narrator give an opinion, Loïc Merle (born in 1978) holds his writing with highest: measured and soft like the steps of Mr. Chalaoui, chaotic and exalted in the case of Clara, grinning of hidden sufferings with president Dumont. This very beautiful novel is a tribute to the voices that rise and howl when they do not want to beseech any more. ”

(Christine Ferniot, Télérama, August 24th, 2013)