A French Life
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A masterpiece by Jean-Paul Dubois, winner of the Prix Goncourt, and winner of the Femina Prize. Give me a moment to surrender to life gracefully. Accurately depicts the loss and sobriety, loneliness and lust of contemporary people. "At that time, I was eight years old and my brother was less than ten years old. He always patiently told me about the changes in the adult world while protecting me from its vicissitudes." "I was twenty-four years old, with a weird diploma in my pocket and a distorted view of this charcoal-black world. This year, Picasso died, and my young life was chaotic and disorderly, like the most Cubist style of his paintings." "I. I had just turned thirty-eight, stuck in a respectable marriage, and my children didn't trust me. I always thought I could resist the temptation and pressure of social discipline, but now I realize that, like everyone else, I have been trapped in it. "My name is Paul Blico, and I am fifty-four years old. I take my medicine on time, live alone, eat dinner alone, grow old alone, and try to stay in touch with my children..."
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