The Goncourt Prize does not necessarily dedicate the best novel of a writer. The proof with Jean-Paul Dubois, winner 2019 for Tous les hommes does not inhabit the world in the same way , while his work already had remarkable titles. To discover Dubois, we would rather recommend Une vie française , which won the Femina Prize in 2004.
In this family saga taking place from the 1950s to the 2000s, the chapters of which bear the names of the presidents of the Fifth Republic (from General de Gaulle to Jacques Chirac), the writer unveils the small and large events that mark the existence of his antihero, Paul Blick, journalist who became a successful author by photographing trees.
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If September 28, 1958 will remain in our history the date of the adoption of the Fifth Republic, it is for Paul Blick, born in 1950 in Toulouse, the day he lost his older brother aged 10 years. A drop shadow from which he will not get rid. Blick, in his fifties, remembers his French life.
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