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La Blessure, la vraie

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« Depuis vingt ans à vrai dire je n’ai plus cessé de rire. C’en est troublant, presque inquiétant, une anomalie car il y aurait plutôt de quoi pleurer, tragédies, saloperies, maladies, labeur de vivre, effroi de ne plus. Toujours j’ai donné le change, mais aujourd’hui me trouve las d’esquiver et pressé d’admettre qu’en effet il y a quelque chose qu’il ne faut plus tarder à raconter. Le temps est venu quoi qu’il m’en coûte de remonter à la blessure. De remonter à 86. À l’été 86 ».

312 pages, Paperback

First published January 5, 2011

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François Bégaudeau

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He was born in Luçon, Vendée and was first a member of the 1990s punk rock group Zabriskie Pont. After receiving his degree in Literature, he taught high school in Dreux and in an inner city middle school in Paris. He published his first novel, Jouer juste in 2003. In 2005, he published Dans la diagonale and Un démocrate, Mick Jagger 1960-1969, a fictionalized account of the life of Mick Jagger.

In 2006, his third novel entitled Entre les murs earned him the Prix France Culture/Télérama.

François Bégaudeau is a movie critic for the French version of Playboy, having previously worked for the Cahiers du cinéma. He also was a regular contributor for several French magazines, including Inculte, Transfuge and So Foot. Since September 2006, he is a columnist for La Matinale and Le Cercle on Canal+ television.

He worked on the screenplay of Entre les murs, a film based on his 2006 novel, in collaboration with Laurent Cantet. He also starred in the film, which received the Palme d'Or at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, and an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film in 2009 (though it lost to Japan's Departures). The English language version of Entre les murs was published in April 2009 by Seven Stories Press under the title The Class.

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February 13, 2024
ok c’est le concept mais on peut pas faire plus écrit par un homme
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November 16, 2025
Aux trois quarts du livre j’étais très convaincue du récit. Immersion réaliste au cœur d’un été des années 80 en France, on est plongés dans les yeux d’un ado intello de classe moyenne qui revient passer l’été sur la terre de son enfance. Mais comme il a 15 ans, les préoccupations ont changé : maintenant il doit coucher avec une fille.

Et puis il tombe amoureux. Et ça donne de grands moments poétiques :
« Je refuse sa bise pour signifier qu’on chemine déjà vers l’étape abouchement. Elle entre dans le jeu, bise dans le vide, juste pour ce moment j’aimerais être le vide. »

Puis, alors que je pensais avoir tout lu et me diriger tranquillement vers la fin de l’histoire, une autre arche s’ouvre. Bien que ce virage m’ait prise par surprise (c’est positif normalement d’être surpris dans un livre), ce dénouement a quelque chose de confus et décevant.
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24 reviews
March 16, 2026
Rare de lire un livre après avoir lu le film dont il est (très librement) adapté (mektoub my love). Rétrospectivement, il en ressort que c'est une adaptation des plus intéressantes, tant elle se rapproche d'une transposition (autre unité de temps, d'espace, de milieux social/racial). Les deux ont en commun cette énergie vitaliste mascu(line) rapprochant begaudeau et kechiche à bien des égards (pour le meilleur et...). Intéressant également de constater que la fin des deux œuvres (pourtant différentes) ont été discutées ! L'écriture est belle, alternant sans cesse entre trivial et poétique
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40 reviews2 followers
August 28, 2018
It was quite disappoining. The writing style was good but it held me from keeping up with the plot sometimes. The ending was also strange and I was confused. Anyway the base story was interesting, as well as the setting. I really hoped to like it more.
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4 reviews
April 23, 2019
Une plongée incroyable de justesse dans la psychologie adolescente masculine. La fin désarçonne.
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September 30, 2020
Particolare, forse il miglior modo per descrivere questo libro.
Finale molto fumoso.
L'ho amata per molti tratti e per altrettanti l'ho odiato.
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124 reviews
October 18, 2018
I really really wanted to like it more. It was good but the last part kind of ruined it for me. However that last part did somehow fit the tone of the novel, but in my opinion it left behind all the best aspects of it: the dreamy surreal stream of consciousness and those bits of raw dialogue that created the perfect atmosphere for a summer's tale , suspended in time, with a subtle dark side. But the dark side took over in the end, and it was a bit too much. Maybe my judgment was influenced by my own expectations. I liked the writing, I almost loved the first part. 2.75
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March 14, 2022
I loved the angle of a 15 years old boy, telling us all about his obsession and plans to have sex for the first time.
The character/story has character. Loved how the story takes place on a summer holiday, contrasting with the (teen) protagonist's twisted thoughts and marxist monologues.

BUT after you've turned half the pages it just becomes boring.
and then BOOM, an awkward yet interesting subplot takes over the story and drives us to the ending in like 5 minutes WTF.

SO frustrated.
It's kind of like building up a joke, and failing to tell the punchline properly.
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