During his studies of letters at the university, he worked on Antonin Artaud, Roger Gilbert-Lecomte and Henri Michaux.
He tells of this experience as a teacher in Le Lycée de nos rêves, co-written with Cyril Delhay, then in charge of the "Priority Education Agreement" program at Sciences-Po.
Les Derniers Feux won the 2008 Prix Valery-Larbaud.
In 2010, L'Envers du monde breaks with this autobiographical vein by proposing a police intrigue with moral and philosophical implications in New York after 11 September.
[6] In 2015, his novel, Il était une ville, was retained in the Goncourt selection and was awarded the Prix des libraires.