Page discusses his fifth novel, Peut-être une histoire de l'amour, with Alain Veinstein on Du jour au lendemain (10/2).
The main character of the novel is Virgil, a name inspired both by the Roman writer and the Woody Allen character in Take the Money and Run. Virgil is excentric, slightly obsessed with yoga, and won't watch films in color (he adjusts his tv to black and white).
Though he is used to women leaving him, he is confounded when "Clara" leaves him a message telling him that she would "prefer" that they break up, because he doesn't recall having a relationship with anyone named Clara. Inspite of this detail, he decides that he must strive to win her back.
Page has written children books as well as an essay on rain which opens with this sentence:
Rain is the password for those who have a taste for a kind of suspension of the world. To say that you like rain is to affirm difference.
And Gwenaël Jeannin writes on Buzz-littéraire that his characters are "raindrops traumatized by their fall and infused with light."
