Vincent Delecroix

Vincent Delecroix (born 1969 in Paris) is a French philosopher and writer. A graduate from the École normale supérieure, and agrégé of philosophy, a specialist of Søren Kierkegaard on whom he did his doctoral thesis, he has taught philosophy of religion at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes as a lecturer. Also a novelist, he received the Prix Valery Larbaud in 2007 for "Ce qui est perdu" (published in 2006) and the Grand prix de littérature de l'Académie française after he published "Tombeau d'Achille" (in 2008). His literary and philosophical work is attentive to existential acts and experiences, such as love, singing and the sacred.
"La chaussure sur le toit".
The story "La chaussure sur le toit" consists of ten short stories on the same theme: a shoe placed on the roof of the building opposite, in Paris. Each chapter is equivalent to a story with a well-defined character and a well-founded character: a dreamy child, a burglar in love, three crazy thugs, an undocumented immigrant, a television presenter, a melancholic dog, a homosexual firefighter, an eccentric lady, a contemporary artist, an angel in pants.