La barbare

by Katherine Pancol

231pages. poche. broché.

231 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1961

About the author

Katherine Pancol moved from Casablanca to France when she was five. She studied literature and initially became a French and Latin teacher, before turning to journalism. While working for Paris-Match and Cosmopolitan, she is noticed by an intuitive publisher who encourages her to begin writing. Following the success of her first novel Moi D'abord (Me First) in 1979, Pancol moves to New York City where she spends the next decade pursuing creative writing and screenwriting classes at Columbia University while producing three more novels La Barbare in 1981, Scarlett, si possible and Les hommes cruels ne courent pas les rues.
Influenced by the American way of life, her style becomes even more enjoyable, action packed and fast paced.
Pancol's insights into human psychology, and particularly women, are amazingly accurate and her sense of details often shaded with wry humor. Her gift to lift people's spirits while providing great entertainment has been key to her success, inspiring many women to dare to be themselves while keeping a positive relationship with life itself.
Her novel The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles (published in 2006) has been a huge success in France, where it sold more than one million copies and received the "Prix de Maison de la Presse, 2006" for largest distribution in France. Katherine Pancol was awarded "Best author 2007" by Gorodets Publishing (Moscow). The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles was the 6th best sold book in France in 2008 (Le Figaro Littéraire). The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles is already being translated into Russian, Chinese, Ukrainian, Polish, Italian, Korean, Vietnamese and Norwegian.
Katherine Pancol is divorced and has two grown children. She lives in Paris, France where she is currently writing the third sequel to The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles.
Pancol updates her blog every week on her web-site (http://www.katherine-pancol.com). - from Wikipedia

Reviews

[Νικολέττα · Rating 4 out of 5]

Όπως στρώνει κανείς κοιμάται.. Κάθε απόφαση ενέχει και τα επακόλουθα της.

[Clemence · Rating 2 out of 5]

Description de la pire relation possible ! Pas un pour rattraper l’autre entre Serge et Anne. Je pensais qu’il y aurait plus de place pour le deuil et le père et en fait il y a juste beaucoup de scènes de sexe. Ça me laisse avec la sensation d’une coquille vide.

[Ana Bloup · Rating 3 out of 5]

Je suis super mitigée
J’aime trop l’écriture mais les PERSONNAGES ils étaient d’un vide SIDÉRAL monstrueux
Donc bon ça fait un bouquin de plus qui traîne plus dans la bibliothèque en gros

[Julia · Rating 3 out of 5]

On se prend rapidement dans l'histoire. Mais je n'ai pas ressenti quelque chose demouvant, et je ne me suis pas reconnue dans les personnages. Serge a la fin est touchant. Anne est mauvaise je trouve.. Trop cru, trop de scènes erotiques a mon gout. L'écriture est assez fluide à part quelques passages ou je n'ai pas trop compris le sens des phrases. Assez moyen..

[KAMI · Rating 3 out of 5]

- raw and messy very not Katherine pancol but found a way to make it hers with her style and relatable writing, it’s also a story of desperation and wrong choices and how can people change so fast sometimes and how miserable the world really is at first I really loved how the book flowed but then it became denser

[Isabelle · Rating 5 out of 5]

Un magnifique roman à propos de l'amour, le sacré et la duplicité humaine. Il est bigrement révélateur sur qui nous sommes, au-delà de la société et de tous les principes moraux et culturels. Un vif état des lieux.

[Jennifer · Rating 4 out of 5]

I bought and read this book for French practice. The title character is a real original. It was hard to believe that someone could be so self-centered.