La photographie était la passion et le métier de Jean. A 58 ans, lorsqu'il perd son emploi, il entreprend de mettre un peu d'ordre chez lui et en profite pour trier ses photos. Ses amours et ses pertes, ses amis, ses déambulations urbaines, ses regrets, ses espoirs : c'est sa vie tout entière qui soudain refait surface et se révèle à lui.
The narrative centers on Pierre, a seasoned bartender in a Paris café, who keenly observes the eclectic mix of customers that frequent his establishment. As the café faces closure, Pierre grapples with feelings of loss and solitude over three introspective days. His reflections reveal a deep empathy for the human condition, highlighting themes of anguish, resilience, and the beauty found in everyday life. This poignant exploration showcases the quiet strength and vulnerabilities of its characters, establishing Dominique Fabre as a master of capturing life's subtleties.
A sensitive portrait of one boy’s travels from earliest consciousness through his salad days in the countryside and onward by a “genius” of “nuanced interior moments” (Los Angeles Times) Fabre’s ability to act as a “discreet megaphone of the man in the crowd” (Elle Magazine) will take you by surprise and leave an immutable mark on your heart. Edgar loves nothing more than listening to the birds in the trees, the squeaking of moles in nearby chalk quarries, the conversations trickling out of the carpeted offices surrounding his favorite park in the suburbs of Paris. He also listens to the hushed conversations of passersby, strangers who whisper that he is “not all there.” But what constitutes the supposedly insufficient character of Edgar’s interior life? Dominique Fabre gives himself over to Edgar’s way of seeing, his sensitivity, his innocence and wisdom, his longings and perceptions, his tentative interpolations into the social fabric of 1960s France, and in each passage we find a stirring answer.
Detektívny román francúzskeho autora, dalo by sa povedať psychologická detektívka, ktorá má všetky atribúty dobrého, napínavého čítania…