author started to write this book "in his head, running from the hard realities of prison, where he spent 36 hours, after police stopped him at a time when the elegant district of Paris, after a few drinks in the bar next , drew cocaine plot mask standing in the street car. In the cramped concrete cell, dreaming of a book or powder to sleep, thoughts Beigbeder escapes to his childhood, she can not remember, because this period of his life took a strange amnesia. Starting from a single image is clear, trying to recall more memories and concludes that their absence caused a conspiracy of silence surrounding the divorce of their parents. He describes the typical wealthy family of French, speaks fondly about his grandparents, his parents and his brother, returns to the youthful readings and music you ever listened to. Finally recovered memories are intertwined with the meticulous and with added humor relationship with custody. For the novel that the writer has received the Prix Renaudot 2009.
As usually happens that's another story published by Noir Sur Blanc did not disappoint me, and what's more charmed. So it was and this novel, I would recommend really worth it.
And yet only a fraction of the rozsmakowania up.
When I inherited my mother:
- Elton John's ballad from the years 1969-1975, the peak of the pop music world,
- watching Woody Allen movies on their entry on the screens,
- the conviction that the best red wine, it does not it, which is the most expensive,
- discontent, the eternal tendency to complain,
- myopia,
- romanticism,
- thin joints,
- a good education,
- a tendency to blush,
- snobbery,
- Good taste in dress,
- a penchant for solitude,
- no fear of breaking,
- Russian writers,
- eating foie gras with a fork,
- that I am not ashamed to cry in public and do not restrain the tears in front of TV,
- complex inferiority
- roast leg of lamb with garlic,
- kisses on the neck,
- acute critical sense,
- kindness to others, cruelty to himself,
- a weakness for gossip,
- Rain Gene Kelly ego and Stanley Donen,
- Late getting breakfast in bed, the smell of toast in the morning
,
- the idea that love must be passionate, unconditional,
jealous, fusing two into one, even if you were to take a short
,
- that love is in life in the first place,
- that you should not say "the south",
- a penchant for reading.
After my father:
- fantasy,
- mania size
- big nose,
- prone to sore throats,
- protruding chin,
- eye color rain,
- loud sneeze twice, which puts on his feet the whole house,
- a penchant for cheese and meat fondue,
- penetration,
- Brooks Brothers,
- sarcasm,
- obsessed with sex,
- that I "shoes" instead of "shoes", "sweater" instead
"pullover" and "Pictorial History" instead of "comics",
- a sense of fun,
- a penchant for fire in the fireplace,
- a weakness for young women,
- and beautiful cars,
- Marx Brothers,
- Vespers of the Blessed Virgin Mary Monteverdi
- complete contempt for others' opinions,
- music from the film American Graffiti ,
- superiority complex
- tropical islands,
- shopping at duty-free,
- that I can devour whole dried sausage for an aperitif
in less than five minutes,
- I am always cool, but from time to time I get mad
because of some foolish things,
- snoring,
- solipsism Plotinus,
- the idea that informality is an advantage,
- The need to write.
