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Frédéric Beigbeder: "The great beauty"

2021-01-15T09:19:43.047Z


CHRONICLE - One of the most beautiful books of the beginning of the year 2021 is a story of memories written by the offspring of an Iranian and a Belgian.


He says that

"his childhood memories are like dreams",

and then he brings us into that dream and we are dazzled.

Christophe Etemadzadeh is the grandson of a great Iranian poet who was imprisoned and tortured for a long time: Beh-Azin.

It is possible that somewhere in his blood he inherited the genius of his grandfather.

His prose is constantly poetic, like that of a Proust who would explore Lille and its surroundings in the years 1975-1987.

To fully explain how I came to be interested in this unknown French teacher, with a name as unpronounceable as mine, I must describe my working method.

I received 400 novels in December and conscientiously opened them all to the front page.

Most did not win this test but, in order not to get angry with 399 authors, I would point out that their talent is not in question: rather my capricious weariness, my twisted taste, my egotistical subjectivity and my congenital laziness.

After careful reading of the

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Source: lefigaro

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