The novelist Matthieu Garrigou-Lagrange took the figure of the architect Tomás Taveira to make a portrait of a man who seems to have staged his own fall. Le Brutaliste is the novel, written by a Frenchman, that nobody in Portugal dared to do.
three action verbs that are personality traits: “Play, have fun, win”. It is in this way that, at a certain point in the novel Le Brutaliste, its author, the French journalist Matthieu Garrigou-Lagrange (Brest, 1980), describes the one who at all resembles a Portuguese architect, responsible for several controversial buildings in Lisbon, city that you know like few, from the working-class neighborhoods of Alcântara to the corridors of the