Literary Breakfast with Sylvain Tesson

Summer had just begun when I set off to find fairies on the Atlantic coast. I don’t believe that they exist. There are no girls wearing tutus with dragonfly wings fluttering above the fountains. It’s a pity: modern humans can no longer see a world of fantasy. In the 12th century, even the lowliest shepherd walked among ghosts. We used to live amongst visions. Maeterlinck, a pale (and very forgotten) Belgian, once said, “How strange people are… Since the demise of fairies, they can’t see them...