Department of French
Patrick Autréaux, a former A&E doctor in Paris, now a novelist and playwright.
Thursday 24 April 2023 at 4pm, O'Rahilly Building UCC, Room 1.24
Patrick Autréaux (born March 14, 1968) is a French writer. After training in medicine and anthropology, he practised as an emergency-room psychiatrist in Paris and started writing poetry and contemporary art reviews before publishing fiction. Prompted by his work as a doctor, and by his own experience of illness, Autréaux set out in search of what is ‘true’. Literature was his chosen route. Through writing, he attempts to find a form for the ‘flesh of the world’. And to find an answer to the question of care. If he writes, it’s in order to treat that for which there is no cure.