A flying Englishman lands in Fayolle. Why did he come to land precisely there? Who is he really? In the village, nobody has an answer, but everybody has a story. The Englishman speaks, but no one understands him. New Christ, impostor or collective invention, he does extraordinary things...
Beyond its mysteries and its burlesque nonsense, there is one certainty: L’Anglais volant undeniably gives grist to our thoughts.
Benoît Reiss was born in 1976. He studied literature in Lyon and Paris. He worked in educational publishing before moving to Japan in 2007, where he taught French. Since 2017, he has been co-director of Cheyne Editions, with Elsa Pallot. As an author, he published the novel Le petit veilleur with Buchet Chastel in 2019, poetry with Cheyne, and stories including O’Yu, un éloge de l’eau chaude with Esperluète Editions in 2021.
