Imagine a contemporary Don Quixote who dreams not of coming to the aid of the widow and the orphan, but of being an adventurous writer who experiences great romantic loves while riding through wild spaces.
Our man, Patrick Rodriguez, in his forties, lives in a two-room apartment in Paris.
He has read all the books and seen all the movies.
Ah, the virile nonchalance of the great actors of the golden age of Hollywood!
Since he was a child, he wants to be Robert Mitchum, Humphrey Bogart and Gary Cooper, Malraux and Hemingway, or nothing:
"I was singularly lacking in personality."
In reality, he comes and goes between his sofa and his desk, in love with a pretty bitch who treats him, earning a small living as an author of regional guides, because our lover of distant horizons loves nothing as much as old provinces, small towns gently slumbering in the folds of the landscape, Barbezieux, Collonges-la-Rouge, Souvigny - measure above all.
These stylishly written guides
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