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An intimate, autobiographical drama about fatherhood, guilt, and complex family relationships. The main character is Daniel, a middle-aged widower who is raising three children alone: twins (an older son and a daughter) and the youngest son Bruno.
This collection is perfect for fans of psychological mysteries like Agatha Christie or Simenon, but with a French poetic touch.
A Time of Violence (1966) is an anti-war and activist novel by French writer Jean-Pierre Simon, a lesser-known author from the mid-20th century, whose work bears traces of leftist literature of the 1930s and 1940s.
The novel, whose original title is L'Homme de plâtre, explores complex human destinies through the story of a protagonist whose life symbolically reflects fragility and vulnerability, like plaster.
In the Shadow of Blooming Girls, the second novel of the series In Search of Lost Time, was published in 1918 and was awarded the Goncourt Prize in 1919.
In Duchesse de Guermantes, the protagonist and his family move to a new apartment, part of the de Guermantes palace in Paris. He admires members of high society and finally meets the Duchesse de Guermantes and his interest in her becomes akin to love.