A controversial, intelligent, and mordantly funny new novel from France's most famous living literary figure
It's 2022. Francois is bored. He's a middle-aged lecturer at the New Sorbonne University and an expert on J. K. Huysmans, the famed nineteenth-century novelist associated with the Decadent movement. But Francois's own decadence is of considerably smaller scale. He sleeps with his students, eats microwave dinners, and watches YouPorn.
Meanwhile, it's election season, and in an alliance with the Socialists, France's new Islamic party sweeps to power--and...
A controversial, intelligent, and mordantly funny new novel from France's most famous living literary figure
Le narrateur, Florent, un expert en agroalimentaire qui a renoncé à sa carrière, livre un récit sur les ravages d'un monde en mutation en dépeignant une France qui piétine ses traditions, banalise ses villes et détruit ses campagnes.
Le narrateur, Florent, un expert en agroalimentaire qui a renoncé à sa carrière, livre un récit sur les ravages d'un monde en mutation en dépeign...
