Since the publication, in 1990, of his first novel,
Memoirs of a disturbed young man
, Frédéric Beigbeder has chained books, collected prizes (Interallié for
Windows on the World
in 2003, Renaudot for
Un roman français
in 2009), created the Prix de Flore, been the editor of Simon Liberati or Guillaume Dustan, directed two feature films.
He has also hosted television shows, been a radio columnist (he still participates in the "Masque et la Plume") and has held the literary soap opera of
Figaro Magazine
since 2012.
We pass, we forget.
The decades have passed and, at 57, the writer feels as in tune with his time as a prehistoric animal.
He knows his faults: "
White, male, born bourgeois in the 1960s.
" In short, a "
dominant
" at a time when it is better to put on the cast-off of the "
dominated
" and the victim.
Read also Frédéric Beigbeder: “To criticize the straight white male over 50 is to be racist four times over”
Confessions of a Slightly Overwhelmed Heterosexual
is the ironic, grating, touching tale of a paradoxical anachronism.
Beigbeder…
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