- Paperback: 180 pages
- Publisher: Pushkin Press; 1 edition (31 Jan 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1906548056
- ISBN-13: 978-1906548056
- Product Dimensions: 19.3 x 11.9 x 1.8 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 799,368 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A man, two women, talent, and a magnificient love story. --Le Figaro
This magnificient novel is alot more than a novel. --PHILIPPE SOLLERS Le Nouvel Observateur
Should the ladies wish to know what thoughts run through the mind of a contemporary man, they need only open this little guide of uncertainty and furtive delights. Madame Figaro -- This self-examination has finesse, relevance and courage in abundance. FREDERIC BEIGBEDER Technikart -- With I was behind you Nicolas Fargues has delivered a novel of great maturity. And this is due as much to his mastery of writing as to the treatment of his subject. --Le Monde
This magnificient novel is alot more than a novel. --PHILIPPE SOLLERS Le Nouvel Observateur
Should the ladies wish to know what thoughts run through the mind of a contemporary man, they need only open this little guide of uncertainty and furtive delights. Madame Figaro -- This self-examination has finesse, relevance and courage in abundance. FREDERIC BEIGBEDER Technikart -- With I was behind you Nicolas Fargues has delivered a novel of great maturity. And this is due as much to his mastery of writing as to the treatment of his subject. --Le Monde
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Ero dietro di te: you know what that means in English? It means I was behind you. She was actually sitting at a table behind us for the entire meal and she spent the whole time watching me without me realising. It's funny, but I'm starting to think that it wouldn't be stretching it to read something really symbolic into that phrase. It could also mean: 'For all this time, all these years, I've been right behind you, as close as can be, and you didn't notice me. It's obvious you and I were meant to be together, but we screwed it up every time. Still, I'm right here, right now, and I want you to know it, the ball's in your court, you won't be able to say no one told you and complain you let the chance of a lifetime slip through your fingers'. See what I mean?
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a concise and sensitive narrative about an extra marital affair
4 July 2009
Format:Paperback
This is a wonderfully written book, that manages to cram all the nuances of the author's emotional experience of an extra-marital affair by way of an imaginary conversation with a friend. From start to finish, impossible to put down, and constructed spirally so that the information that leads to the resolution of the storyline arrives in individual installments that the narrator relates through seemingly separate stories, allowing the reader to deepen his understanding of the character as the plot unwinds. In between comparative descriptions of France and Italy, (a metaphor for stodgy married life versus freedom?) and the European lifestyle, one uncovers an honest and very human description of the mindset and dynamic of an extra marital love affair and the subsequent turmoil it invokes in the protagonist. Highly readable and warmly recommended.
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