LITERARY THURSDAYS
THURSDAY 2 JUNE 2022 - 5PM
Louis Nucéra Library
Aurélie de Gubernatis receives Didier VAN CAUWELAERT
In
preamble to the Nice Book Festival
Free admission within the limits of available places
Didier VAN CAUWELAERT presents his novel "A real mother... or almost"
published by Albin Michel
The Author
Didier van Cauwelaert has accumulated literary prizes and public success since his debut. Prix Goncourt for Un aller simple in 1994, he recently published Le Pouvoir des animaux, after the exceptional bestseller of Les Jules and Le Retour de Jules.
The book
Pierre has always had a complicated relationship with his mother Simone. This one, a personality as extravagant as authoritarian and possessive, has just died. She demanded in her will that her son continue to run his old Renault, an old-fashioned car whose registration card he neglected in his mother's name. He continues with delight the speeding, and Simone's driving license sees his points melt, until he is offered a road rehabilitation course ...
In his aunt's retirement home, Pierre then meets the petulant Lucie, a fallen actress but who has retained all her tone. She offers him to play the role of his mother during the internship. Lucie will become a credible double and even a kind of diabolical reincarnation. To "work on her role", she moves into Simone's apartment and Pierre gradually finds himself under her control.
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