The article focuses on the great practitioner and ardent defender of the short story in the 1980, André Carpentier who had not published a collection of short stories since Carnet sur la fin possible d'un monde in 1992. Topics include considered the author of a dozen books, he had published four collections of short stories before his return to the genre in 2020 with Le cri du Poisson and other sketches: first fantastic short stories in Rue Saint-Denis.