Rentrée littéraire
is Eric Neuhoff's best novel.
After 30 books, he finds himself with what must be called a "Work" with a capital "O", as if his audience were crying "Ooooh".
It is a pretentious word which will displease him supremely.
Yet he must assume what he has laid since the early 1980s: a multiplicity of charming little novels that ended up making him great.
Rentrée littéraire
is both a corrosive satire of the world of publishing and a declaration of love for French levity.
This love story between Pierre,
"the worst shot on the left bank",
and his wife Claire, a sublime blonde from the Caca's Club, allows Neuhoff to paint a disillusioned portrait of these publishers who will have spent their lives talking badly from their colleagues in lunches in town, to end up selling their house to uneducated businessmen.
We will remember that the publishers are martyrs who sacrifice their health for ingrates and that the…
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