MAINTENANCE – Journalist Richard Escot sought to understand why the sport inspires so many writers.
Big names in literature parade, from Pierre Mac Orlan to Jean-Paul Dubois, including Kléber Haedens, Julien Gracq, Antoine Blondin, Denis Tillinac and many others. With one thing in common: their attachment to this oval balloon to which they have devoted many chapters. Co-authored with writer Benoit Jeantet of Line games (Éditions Privat), Richard Escot, journalist and author of some twenty books, deciphers for Le Figaro the “link between these two universes which feed on each other ”.
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LE FIGARO. – Having become a professional, does rugby still inspire writers?
Richard ESCOT. – Sure. The salaries, the watered-down press conferences, that does not prevent there being always characters. The real problem today is in the multiplication of visions: the images circulate on the networks, the TV channels. It kills the myth.
So the golden age is over?
There have been two golden ages. The first where rugby became the king sport, in the 1920s.
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