Is a fan of Jack Kérouac. He has cited On the road (1957) as one of his favorite novels. Franz Kafka, Marcel Proust, Maurice Blanchot, René Crevel, Yukio Mishima, Louis Ferdinand Céline, Thomas Bernhard, Philip Roth, Peter Handke, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, William Faulkner, Milan Kundera, Hervé Guibert, John Fante and Bernard-Marie Koltès are his favorite writers.