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L'inversion de l'idiotie
C'est l'histoire improbable d'un héros qui n'en est pas un, et se fait donc passer pour le neveu de Milan Kundera. Seulement, ce n'est pas la première fois qu'on fait le coup au Tchèque exilé : à Prague, il est d'usage de faire croire aux simples d'esprit qu'ils ont pour oncle le célèbre écrivain.
S'ensuivent rocambolesques aventures et bons mots en pagaille. Ainsi : " Jusqu'ici, la Pologne représentait à mes yeux quelque chose de lointain, d'évasif même, un peu comme le mot "fin" de À la recherche du temps perdu. "
S'ensuivent rocambolesques aventures et bons mots en pagaille. Ainsi : " Jusqu'ici, la Pologne représentait à mes yeux quelque chose de lointain, d'évasif même, un peu comme le mot "fin" de À la recherche du temps perdu. "
- GenresFrance
216 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2002
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About the author
David Foenkinos
60 books2,110 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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June 19, 2013
Вызывает и смех и жалость в течении всей книги. В какой-то момент начинаешь призадумываться по какую сторону идиотизма находшься сама, но к концу произведения успокаиваешься, ибо все же главные идиоты остались в книге.
August 24, 2018
Neasteptat de buna, umor fin, scriitura isteata.
January 9, 2021
Unfortunately my biggest waste of time :/
August 21, 2023
jest to pokręcone ponad miarę, ale wciąga!
July 12, 2016
DAVID FOENKINOS - Inversiunea Idioteniei. Despre Influenta A Doi Polonezi.
David Foenkinos are 31 de ani si a publicat deja 4 carti la prestigioasele edituri franceze Gallimard si Flammarion. Inversiunea idioteniei... este primul sau roman. Victor a castigat o suma fabuloasa la pariuri hipice si isi umple de opt ani existenta iubind-o pe Tereza. Aceasta se hotaraste sa-l paraseasca, iar pentru a o recuceri, Victor il aduce acasa pe Conrad, un tanar sarac cu duhul. De aici o serie de evenimente neprevazute... Un roman despre un nepot al lui Milan Kundera, despre de ce nu trebuie sa cumperi sardele expirate si, bineinteles, despre doi polonezi..
David Foenkinos are 31 de ani si a publicat deja 4 carti la prestigioasele edituri franceze Gallimard si Flammarion. Inversiunea idioteniei... este primul sau roman. Victor a castigat o suma fabuloasa la pariuri hipice si isi umple de opt ani existenta iubind-o pe Tereza. Aceasta se hotaraste sa-l paraseasca, iar pentru a o recuceri, Victor il aduce acasa pe Conrad, un tanar sarac cu duhul. De aici o serie de evenimente neprevazute... Un roman despre un nepot al lui Milan Kundera, despre de ce nu trebuie sa cumperi sardele expirate si, bineinteles, despre doi polonezi..
September 1, 2016
Прочтя это нечто, я почувствовала себя полной идиоткой. Я так никогда и не узнаю, зачем я продолжала читать эту чушь. Если можно было, я бы поставила 0.
October 22, 2011
sevdiğim yazarların toy hali gibi.
September 17, 2013
i don't know if i like the book or not,the title was intrigueing,but the story disappointed me.
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