Everybody Lives at 10 Downing Street

Michel Méry wrote more than 50 short stories from 1985 to 1996, in French, his native language, while living in New York. He translated these short stories into English so as to make them accessible to his immediate cultural environment at the time and submit them to literary magazines. Except for Everybody Lives at 10 Downing Street, which he wrote directly in English like two subsequent novels which were to follow in 1997 and 1998: Pyrexia and Windows Mighty-Five. ...
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Michel Méry wrote more than 50 short stories from 1985 to 1996, in French, his native language, while living in New York. He translated these short stories into English so as to make them accessible to his immediate cultural environment at the time and submit them to literary magazines. Except for Everybody Lives at 10 Downing Street, which he wrote directly in English like two subsequent novels which were to follow in 1997 and 1998: Pyrexia and Windows Mighty-Five.

These texts are geographically and mentally inspired by the U.S. landscape, from the New York subway to the "kivas" of Amerindian archaeological sites, through the nine months of the O.J. Simpson trial and the Alien mania. However, there is no real mention in the book of the residence of the British Prime Minister, that appears here only as one address among all those inhabited in the known universe. This means that locality and temporality are mixed and triturated in a rough way throughout these 16 texts, but not only that. Hold tight.