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I don’t know how it came to me, or, rather, how it came to me again, but when I got to the age of fifty, it became obvious: I feel rather at home with Jesus, who loved the Samaritan woman, the centurion, the publican, the adulterous woman, the sick and the sinners. I feel comfortable in the company of the Virgin Mary, who is so tolerant, and who appears to me like a reliable person (it is possible she is also relying on me). I feel quite at home with the good old Church of Rome, whose history is so complex and fragmented.
These past few years, I started a friendship with Jean-Marc Bastière, who got into this a bit before me. We have discussed religion and faith, exchanged Emails on the topic. We ended up writing this book together. I am not a preacher. I just feel better ‘with’ than ‘without’.
François Taillandier

There is nothing worse than trying to defend Christianity. It is the kind of middlebrow endeavour that necessarily attracts contempt. But if you love, you need not justify yourself. If you are inhabited by passion, you cannot contain it within yourself. You have to look deep into things – body and mind and consciousness. The present dialogue may well shock the new bigots. Molière has not become passé, it is the expressions of conformity that have changed: it is not the body, or sexuality, but God himself who has become an object of shame. My trajectory is different from that of François, whose books I admire and experience I value. All paths lead to Rome, it is well known. I am suspicious of testimonies: life always brings last minute surprises. Since childhood, I have undergone a series of deaths and rebirths. Hence, there are two Frances in me: the secular and the catholic one. Yet it is one and the same love story.
Jean-Marc Bastière

A literary critic and a writer, Jean-Marc Bastière has published an essay , Réussir sa jeunesse, de l’âge des possibles à l’âge des choix (1999, Fayard) , as well as a novel, Les anges d’à côté (2004, Desclée de Brouwer) and an alphabet book, Dieu est insolent (2004, Mame Edifa). He belongs to a new generation of authors whose work combines freedom of speach and spiritual aspirations.

Following Anielka (awarded the Grand Prix du roman by the Académie française, Stock, 1999) and Le cas Gentile, François Taillandier is the author of a remarkable literary saga that covers 5 generations of contemporary France - a fascinating series which first three volumes have already been published: Option paradis, Telling, and Il n’y a personne dans les tombes.