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Un délicieux naufrage
Frank De Bondt

Philippe Langon is a respectable man: university professor, renowned thinker, author of a somewhat successful political essay. Yet at age 55, as the husband of Babette, and father of 4, he’s bored with his life… Until he meets Lena, 28, who he will seduce (to feel young again?), who provides the breath of fresh air he needed precisely at this point in his life. This light-hearted, playful parenthesis will gradually turn into a veritable passion that winds up escaping utterly from his control. Until the meaningless affair wins out?

This light, entertaining text is actually more serious than it seems at first. The college setting, the family pressures, the May-December relationship, all lend themselves to moments of comedy. But what interests the author above all is developing, with undeniable finesse, a reflection about the nature of love, through the prism of exceedingly varied characters.

You’ll recognize Frank De Bondt’s style in this bittersweet novel, written with lucidity and irony as its guiding principles. When you get right down to it, life is neither as good nor as bad as we seem to think…

Un délicieux naufrage -
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  • Buchet/Chastel
  • Littérature française
  • Publication date : 07/04/2011
  • Size : 14 x 20,5 cm, 288 p., 17,75 EUR €
  • ISBN 978-2-283-02498-0
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