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Frédéric Beigbeder: “The vita non dolce”

2022-01-21T06:14:58.641Z


CHRONICLE - The Sweetest Life of Fabrice Gaignault is an ironic title because his childhood was a tragedy.


Eleven years in prison is quite a punishment, especially when you've done nothing but be born.

Adrien is a man broken by his childhood in boarding school.

His parents locked him up near Paris to be able to dance quietly at Castel.

In his prison, Adrien cried every night like his little comrades, in a frozen dormitory, and if he read a book under the sheets, the guard dragged him by the hair, picked him up by the ears, beat him in an icy shower or forced him to kneel on a metal ruler, carrying dictionaries at arm's length.

And that's how you become a writer and a journalist.

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You have to call things by their name: the religious boarding houses where many French people were raised in the 20th century were sometimes places of torture.

This is only one of the aspects of the nightmare told by Fabrice Gaignault in his latest novel.

The Sweetest Life

is a plunge into the 1970s, without the slightest nostalgia.

He describes…

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Source: lefigaro

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