Jean-Michel Guenassia est né en 1950. Avocat puis scénariste et auteur dramatique, il se consacre en 2002 à l’écriture du Club des Incorrigibles Optimistes, roman phénomène pour lequel il reçoit le Goncourt des Lycéens en 2009 ainsi que le Prix des lecteurs du Livre de Poche 2012. On lui doit également La Vie rêvée d’Ernesto G., Dernière donne, Trompe-la-mort, La Valse des arbres et du ciel et De l’influence de David Bowie sur la destinée des jeunes filles.
The Incorrigible Optimists Club is a huge, exhilarating whirlwind of first love, radical art, colonial war, progressive politics, Chuck Berry and chain-smoking intellectuals.
Paris, 1959. As dusk settles over the immigrant quarter, 12-year-old Michel Marini - amateur photographer and compulsive reader - is drawn to the hum of the local bistro. From his usual position at the football table, he has a vantage point on a grown-up world - of rock 'n' roll and of the Algerian War. But as the sun sinks and the plastic players spin, Michel's concentration is not on the game, but on the huddle of men gathered in the shadows of a back room...
Past the bar, behind a partly drawn curtain, a group of eastern European men gather, where under a cirrus of smoke and over the squares of chess boards, they tell of their lives before France - of lovers and wives, children and ambitions, all exiled behind the Iron Curtain. Listening to this band of survivors and raconteurs, Michel is introduced to a world beyond the boundaries of his childhood experience, a world of men made formidable in the face of history, ideas and politics: the world of the Incorrigible Optimists Club.
Título : The Incorrigible Optimists Club
EAN : 9781782394044
Editorial : Atlantic Books
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