Bruno Le Maire's second novel, "American Fugue," released Thursday in bookstores after five years of writing. The Minister of Economy and Finance says he started writing before entering politics.

"There is no calculation in my writing. There is only the will to be totally oneself in it," says the 54-year-old. "I certainly think I still have things to do in politics," he says, stressing that the writer and the politician "complement each other"