Biography

"Inspired by a recent incident, the killing of an eight-year-old child by her parents, La maladroite recomposes by fiction the monologues of the impotent witnesses of his martyrdom, family members, teachers, doctors, social services, gendarmes ... A first novel of a shocking reading, questioning the responsibilities of each one in these tragedies of the maltreatment. "

• Publisher's presentation

"Alexandre Seurat likes words to the vertigo. He never leaves his notebook where he notes sentences, imagines bits of stories. Speaking to the readers, going to bookshops, all this passage to the act pleases him, even if it felt a stunning at the time of the publication of La maladroite. Suddenly, being published was no longer a dream, one would recognize him in his city, his school, his neighborhood. He suddenly says "the next book will be worse", confiding his fears to "the words that kill" and his desire to be a writer and nothing else. Alexandre Seurat knows exactly what he wants. "
 

• Christine Ferniot, Télérama.fr, October 29, 2015