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Bernard
Bernard ne sait pas bien comment c'est arrivé mais, à cinquante ans, le voilà obligé de retourner vivre chez ses parents.
- GenresFrance
82 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2010
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About the author
David Foenkinos
60 books2,127 followersDavid Foenkinos is a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter and director who studied both literature and music in Paris.
His novel La délicatesse is a bestseller in France. A film based on the book was released in December 2011, with Audrey Tautou as the main character. His novels have appeared in over forty languages, and in 2014 he was awarded the Prix Renaudot for his novel Charlotte.
Growing up in a home with few books and often absent parents, David Foenkinos read and wrote little during his childhood. At 16, he required emergency surgery as a result of a rare pleural infection and spent several months recuperating in hospital, where he began to devour books, learning to paint and play the guitar. From this experience, he says, he kept a drive for life, a force that he wanted to convey through his books.
He studied literature at the Sorbonne and music in a jazz school, eventually becoming a guitar teacher. In the evenings, he was a waiter in a restaurant. After unsuccessfully trying to set up a music group, he turned his hand to writing.
After a handful of failed manuscripts, he found his style, and his first novel Inversion de l'idiotie: de l'influence de deux Polonais (“Inversion of idiocy: influenced by two Poles”), though refused by many other publishers, was published by Gallimard in 2002; the book earned him the François-Mauriac literary prize, awarded by the Académie Française.
David Foenkinos is the brother of director Stéphane Foenkinos.
His novel La délicatesse is a bestseller in France. A film based on the book was released in December 2011, with Audrey Tautou as the main character. His novels have appeared in over forty languages, and in 2014 he was awarded the Prix Renaudot for his novel Charlotte.
Growing up in a home with few books and often absent parents, David Foenkinos read and wrote little during his childhood. At 16, he required emergency surgery as a result of a rare pleural infection and spent several months recuperating in hospital, where he began to devour books, learning to paint and play the guitar. From this experience, he says, he kept a drive for life, a force that he wanted to convey through his books.
He studied literature at the Sorbonne and music in a jazz school, eventually becoming a guitar teacher. In the evenings, he was a waiter in a restaurant. After unsuccessfully trying to set up a music group, he turned his hand to writing.
After a handful of failed manuscripts, he found his style, and his first novel Inversion de l'idiotie: de l'influence de deux Polonais (“Inversion of idiocy: influenced by two Poles”), though refused by many other publishers, was published by Gallimard in 2002; the book earned him the François-Mauriac literary prize, awarded by the Académie Française.
David Foenkinos is the brother of director Stéphane Foenkinos.
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August 13, 2023
Tan bien que íbamos… lástima de desenlace.
January 8, 2026
court et sans prise de tête
February 20, 2019
Petite nouvelle toute simple : il n'est jamais trop tard pour être heureux.
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May 16, 2022Bernard se retrouve chez ses parents à l’âge de 50 ans. Après avoir trahi sa femme avec la secrétaire et une perte d’emploi, il se retrouve à la porte d’un divorce.
August 7, 2022
Première lecture d'un livre de David Foenkinos : j'aime beaucoup sa plume ! Next : lire d'autres livres de cet auteur !
November 11, 2024
Mon père devrait lire ça peut être qu’il finirait comme Bernard
September 5, 2011
Une petite nouvelle qui ravira les fans de Foenkinos dont je fais désormais partie. C'est bien écrit, totalement dans l'air du temps et montre que le bonheur est à la portée de n'importe qui ... Pas besoin de s'inventer une vie idéale : le secret réside dans la sincérité et les plaisirs simples. Un brin utopiste ? Certes, mais où est le mal ? Voici donc un roman à mettre entre les mains de tous ceux qui pensent que leur vie ne vaut rien !
November 19, 2012
Une histoire rafraîchissante, partiellement utopique, sur une vie possible certes mais que peu de gens recherchent avant de tomber dessus par "hasard" comme notre ami Bernard. Très agréable et rapide à lire, j'ai passé un très bon moment!
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