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Rien de grave
Justine Lévy conta-nos, em Nada de Grave, com muito humor e também com muita ternura, a sucessão de feridas que a vida lhe infligiu (a morte da avó, a doença da mãe, a fuga do seu marido com a Top Model Internacional Carla Bruni, a dependência das anfetaminas). Romance auto -biográfico de extrema sensibilidade, esta é uma história sobre os sentimentos e as emoções que todos experimentamos um dia e que nenhum leitor pode perder.Um livro tocante de uma mulher destruída, a quem tudo acontece, a ponto de quase não conseguir recuperar e que transforma com originalidade a sua dor numa obra-prima. Sentimos Justine Lévy de coração aberto, à flor da pele, como alguém que se confessa para conseguir voltar a viver.
194 pages, Paperback
First published February 23, 2004
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September 22, 2015
Am not in the target group of women being dumped for Carla Bruni.
February 14, 2010
If wikipedia is to be believed, this quick & easy read is Justine Lévy's autobiographical account of the demise and aftermath of her marriage to Raphaël Enthoven, who left her for the French model and singer Carla Bruni. Somewhat tabloid-worthy herself, Justine, who may or may not be the novel's protagonist Louise, is the daughter of French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy.
Lévy's description of the notorious man-eating woman with the perfectly (surgically) invented face seems as good a place as any to start. If pointing out the fact that Bruni had picked out her face in a doctor's office seems a bit predictable, coming from one of the many wives whose marriages Bruni has famously left in ruins, another way of looking at it renders this ostensibly dishwater tale a little bit of genius. Who knows, really, if Levy's characterization of Bruni comes anywhere near its mark. Rather, consistent with the entire story, it's better understood as window into a condition neither rare nor especially remarkable. Nothing Serious depicts a very anticlimactic aftermath of a great loss - disengagement, emptiness, and an emotional numbing that Louise comes to accept as possibly permanent. Nothing in this story is especially trumped up. Nothing is depicted in an especially dramatic fashion. A potentially deadly amphetamine addiction, a late term abortion, losing one's first love and husband to Bruni - all of this is narrated as if it were as ordinary as the comings and goings of the mailman. And so, the serious and ostensibly autobiographical character of Nothing Serious almost entirely masks its central irony, although it should all become clear in the final chapter, where Lévy's critique of love in 21st century is plain to see:
"Life is a rough draft, in the end. Every story is the rough draft of the next one, you cross out, you cross out, and when it's almost right and without out any misprints, it's over, all that's left is to leave, that's why life is long. Nothing serious"
Lévy's description of the notorious man-eating woman with the perfectly (surgically) invented face seems as good a place as any to start. If pointing out the fact that Bruni had picked out her face in a doctor's office seems a bit predictable, coming from one of the many wives whose marriages Bruni has famously left in ruins, another way of looking at it renders this ostensibly dishwater tale a little bit of genius. Who knows, really, if Levy's characterization of Bruni comes anywhere near its mark. Rather, consistent with the entire story, it's better understood as window into a condition neither rare nor especially remarkable. Nothing Serious depicts a very anticlimactic aftermath of a great loss - disengagement, emptiness, and an emotional numbing that Louise comes to accept as possibly permanent. Nothing in this story is especially trumped up. Nothing is depicted in an especially dramatic fashion. A potentially deadly amphetamine addiction, a late term abortion, losing one's first love and husband to Bruni - all of this is narrated as if it were as ordinary as the comings and goings of the mailman. And so, the serious and ostensibly autobiographical character of Nothing Serious almost entirely masks its central irony, although it should all become clear in the final chapter, where Lévy's critique of love in 21st century is plain to see:
"Life is a rough draft, in the end. Every story is the rough draft of the next one, you cross out, you cross out, and when it's almost right and without out any misprints, it's over, all that's left is to leave, that's why life is long. Nothing serious"
August 24, 2010
J'ai adoooré.
Rien de grave, mais j’ai pleuré.
Justine Levy Comme je n’avais plus rien à livre, un ami m’a prêté un livre: «Rien de grave» de Justine Lévy. Je n’avais jamais entendu parler de ce livre. Je ne suis pas l’actualité people et je ne me suis jamais intéressée à qui couche avec qui et qui se marie avec qui…
J’ai donc lu ce livre sans arrière-pensées, sans préjugés, sans aucune idée préconçue. Je l’avais presque fini en croyant qu’il s’agissait d’un simple roman, sans savoir qu’en fait il s’agit d’un livre autobiographique.
J’ai commencé ce livre et dès le début, je l’ai aimé.
Avant même de savoir ce qui allait suivre, j’ai aimé. J’ai aimé. J’ai aimé Louise qui va à l’enterrement de sa grand....
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Rien de grave, mais j’ai pleuré.
Justine Levy Comme je n’avais plus rien à livre, un ami m’a prêté un livre: «Rien de grave» de Justine Lévy. Je n’avais jamais entendu parler de ce livre. Je ne suis pas l’actualité people et je ne me suis jamais intéressée à qui couche avec qui et qui se marie avec qui…
J’ai donc lu ce livre sans arrière-pensées, sans préjugés, sans aucune idée préconçue. Je l’avais presque fini en croyant qu’il s’agissait d’un simple roman, sans savoir qu’en fait il s’agit d’un livre autobiographique.
J’ai commencé ce livre et dès le début, je l’ai aimé.
Avant même de savoir ce qui allait suivre, j’ai aimé. J’ai aimé. J’ai aimé Louise qui va à l’enterrement de sa grand....
La suite sur mon blog, ici:
http://massir.blogs.psychologies.com/...
A partir de la Tunisie, pour avoir accès à ce blog, copier/coller ce lien dans votre barre d'adresse:
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February 10, 2019
The provenance of this roman à clef is absurdly French in its high/lowbrow pedigree. I will leave you to your devices to sort it out if you're interested, but it bears mentioning that it involves BHL (the talk show philosopher who wears his shirt unbuttoned to his navel); La Première Dame herself, Ms. Carla Bruni; and a hunky young philosophy professor (they exist, apparently).
The novel revolves around the author looking back on her dissolved marriage. I would describe the style as minimalist stream-of-consciousness, which Levy utilizes to intimate, odd, slyly funny, and somehow graceful effect. Ms. Levy is also remarkably skilled at capturing the ways in which we are both participants and observers in our own lives.
A note on the translation: I tend to be critical of translations, but this one was quite lucid and evocative despite several strange proofreading errors.
The novel revolves around the author looking back on her dissolved marriage. I would describe the style as minimalist stream-of-consciousness, which Levy utilizes to intimate, odd, slyly funny, and somehow graceful effect. Ms. Levy is also remarkably skilled at capturing the ways in which we are both participants and observers in our own lives.
A note on the translation: I tend to be critical of translations, but this one was quite lucid and evocative despite several strange proofreading errors.
February 14, 2013
Au début je ne savais pas a quoi m'attendre. Combien de personnages y'avait t il? Allait il y avoir d'autres personnages qui allait parler?J'avançais page par page et au fil de la lecture je me sentais a la fois mal a l'aise tellement j'avais la véritable sensation de lire un journal intime mais aussi excitée de pouvoir déceler tout ces sentiments et ces secrets que la narratrice partageait. C'est très bien écrit ,j'étais complètement dedans, j'avais de la haine pour ce mari ingrat, de la pitié et de la sympathie pour le nouvel amant, je pleurais et je souriais. Tellement dedans que j'en ai mis du temps a me décider de le finir car je ne voulais pas qu'il finisse tout simplement. Un de mes livres préfères. A lire.
February 12, 2008
Stylish, intelligent, and often scathingly funny, Nothing Serious is an unblinking portrayal of the search for self amidst the reckless glamorization of love.
Vain about their young love, Louise and her husband Adrien used to laugh about the way he couldn’t pass a mirror without looking. But when he deserts Louise for a famous model she’s devastated, and forced to confront those vanities – his and her own. Meanwhile, life goes on regardless, making Louise feel all the more guilty about the melodrama her life has become.
With her privileged circumstances as the daughter of one of Europe’s most famous writers only complicating things further, she gathers her painkillers around her, unleashes her ruthless sense of honesty, and – with lacerating relish – tries to unravel why her marriage failed . . . and whether a sane person should try such a thing again.
Nothing Serious won universal praise from critics upon its release in Europe, selling over 200,000 copies and knocking The Da Vinci Code out of the number one position on bestseller lists.
Vain about their young love, Louise and her husband Adrien used to laugh about the way he couldn’t pass a mirror without looking. But when he deserts Louise for a famous model she’s devastated, and forced to confront those vanities – his and her own. Meanwhile, life goes on regardless, making Louise feel all the more guilty about the melodrama her life has become.
With her privileged circumstances as the daughter of one of Europe’s most famous writers only complicating things further, she gathers her painkillers around her, unleashes her ruthless sense of honesty, and – with lacerating relish – tries to unravel why her marriage failed . . . and whether a sane person should try such a thing again.
Nothing Serious won universal praise from critics upon its release in Europe, selling over 200,000 copies and knocking The Da Vinci Code out of the number one position on bestseller lists.
July 9, 2007
I loved this book. I love how honest the narrator is and how bitter she is towards love. But she is not bitter towards the man who broke her heart she is bitter towards what love does to people. The book shows what can happen when one gets lost in "love" and made me question what love really is and how we as a society choose to define it.
December 2, 2024
« Vous parlez toujours aussi vite? » il m’a demandé.
« Oui, je crois »
« Pourquoi ? »
« Par peur «
« De quoi? »
« D’ennuyer les gens trop longtemps, je pense »
É tutto così francese. Lei comunque nepo baby che basa la sua intera carriera scrivendo della propria vita solo cambiando i nomi GIRLBOSS bravissima Justine.
« Oui, je crois »
« Pourquoi ? »
« Par peur «
« De quoi? »
« D’ennuyer les gens trop longtemps, je pense »
É tutto così francese. Lei comunque nepo baby che basa la sua intera carriera scrivendo della propria vita solo cambiando i nomi GIRLBOSS bravissima Justine.
November 10, 2025
Quatre consonnes et trois voyelles. C’est le prénom de Raphaël. Je le murmure à mon oreille. Et chaque lettre m’émerveille. […]Le Raphaël de la chanson de Carla Bruni est Raphaël Enthoven qui a quitté sa femme, Justine Levy – la fille de Bernard-Henri Lévy –, pour vivre une histoire avec la chanteuse qui était alors en couple avec son père, Jean-Paul Enthoven – ami de longue date de BHL. Je sais, c’est compliqué et on n’est pas loin de la tragédie grecque. Dans ce roman très largement autobiographique seuls les noms semblent avoir été changés, Raphaël est devenu Adrien et Carla, Paula.
Mais quand même, c’est pas si fréquent un type qui plaque la femme qu’il aime pour faire un enfant avec la fiancée de son père adoré.
Justine Lévy relate cet amour de jeunesse pur et intense qui a souffert plus tard des ambitions de son mari. Elle raconte les difficultés qu’elle a rencontré pendant et après son mariage, comment elle est parvenu à se reconstruire – et oui, Paula / Carla en prend pour son grade au passage.
Chaque histoire est le brouillon de la prochaine, on rature, on rature, et quand c’est à peu près propre et sans coquilles, c’est fini, on n’a plus qu’à partir, c’est pour ça que la vie est longue. Rien de grave.
C’est un roman qui a plus de vingt ans, il est écrit dans un style déstructuré, très libre, qui semble refléter l’état interne de la narratrice / autrice. Une histoire qui aurait paru complètement improbable si elle n’était pas basée sur la réalité.
Également publié sur mon blog.
October 21, 2023
Pas dégueu mais pas folichon non plus. La commère au fond de moi a bien aimé, l'amateur de littérature un peu moins.
February 27, 2018
J'ai abandonné à la moitié. C'était pénible les gémissements (même s'ils représentent une réalité). J'ai trouvé que ça manquait de recul. Dommage car les personnages sont attachants et l'histoire aurait pu être intéressante.
May 17, 2007
I tried to get through with this, but I think a combination of the subject matter (a woman going through a nasty breakup) and the translation (which sounded ridiculous at times) thwarted me.
January 29, 2015
Great Breakup Book.
August 25, 2025
Ein Gedankengewirr einer jungen Frau, die sehr früh ihre große Jugendliebe geheiratet und verloren hat. Sie zeigt tiefe Einblicke in eine verkorkste, dramatische und verletzende Beziehung und wie sie sich danach fühlt. Betäubung, Stumpfsein und Antriebslosigkeit werden auf eine eindrückliche Weise dargestellt und immer wieder in Verbindung zu ihrer gescheiterten Ehe gesetzt.
Es geht um das darüber hinwegkommen, das Akzeptieren einer guten Beziehung und das Einlassen auf ein schönes und gutes Leben, welches so weit weg erscheint.
Ich habe durch das Buch auch noch mal mehr das Prinzip von Abhängigkeit und den damit einhergehenden Teufelskreis verstanden.
Sehr viel, einfühlsam und taub.
Innerhalb von knapp 2 Tagen durchgelesen.
Es geht um das darüber hinwegkommen, das Akzeptieren einer guten Beziehung und das Einlassen auf ein schönes und gutes Leben, welches so weit weg erscheint.
Ich habe durch das Buch auch noch mal mehr das Prinzip von Abhängigkeit und den damit einhergehenden Teufelskreis verstanden.
Sehr viel, einfühlsam und taub.
Innerhalb von knapp 2 Tagen durchgelesen.
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January 26, 2022it’s the ‘no estoy dispuesta a volver a vivir nunca más la muerte del amor. no soy tan fuerte ni tan valiente’ for me
June 24, 2025
Crossover gala x littérature
August 12, 2016
Louise a 27 ans. Elle se fait plaquer par son grand amour, Adrien qui la quitte pour sa belle-mère. Elle plonge lentement dans l'abîme de la dépression, sa mère est atteinte d'un cancer incurable, elle vit dans l'amour sublimé d'un père absent et inatteignable. Elle se sent vide, terriblement vide. En passant par l'addiction aux amphétamines, la peur constante de ne pas être à la hauteur, les souvenirs d'une enfance en demi-teinte, Louise va petit a petit reprendre goût à la vie grâce à la ténacité de Pablo.
Roman autobiographique de la fille de BHL, j'avais parcouru rapidement quelques critiques mitigées. Certes, on peut être dérouté par le manque de ponctuation, de phrases conventionelles. C'est écrit comme est écrit un roman d'une ado : à la manière d'un blog, sans chapitres ni réelle logique narrative, phrases cinglantes et plein de romantisme grandiloquant. Est-ce pour autant désagréable ? Pas du tout!
C'est incisif, caustique même. Je ne me suis pas ennuyée une seule seconde. Nous sommes dans la prose pure, confiture de sentiments éparpillée au fil des pages. Ce n'est pas mièvre pour autant et je trouve que son succès est mérité! Je lirais ses autres livres sans problème.
Je trouve que Justine Levy -alias Louise, a parfaitement retranscrit la douleur que peut être vécue après une rupture. Pari réussi pour moi.
Roman autobiographique de la fille de BHL, j'avais parcouru rapidement quelques critiques mitigées. Certes, on peut être dérouté par le manque de ponctuation, de phrases conventionelles. C'est écrit comme est écrit un roman d'une ado : à la manière d'un blog, sans chapitres ni réelle logique narrative, phrases cinglantes et plein de romantisme grandiloquant. Est-ce pour autant désagréable ? Pas du tout!
C'est incisif, caustique même. Je ne me suis pas ennuyée une seule seconde. Nous sommes dans la prose pure, confiture de sentiments éparpillée au fil des pages. Ce n'est pas mièvre pour autant et je trouve que son succès est mérité! Je lirais ses autres livres sans problème.
Je trouve que Justine Levy -alias Louise, a parfaitement retranscrit la douleur que peut être vécue après une rupture. Pari réussi pour moi.
April 11, 2014
A not too flattering self-portrait of the author with a thin, fictional veil (she gives her alter ego the name 'Louise' - but she keeps the last name of Lévy) and the death of that first, big love of one's life and picking up the pieces so you can move on. She isn't the most pleasant of persons to be around all the time, still Louise was a quite fascinating acquaintance!
(Noted that some people of the English translation wasn't too happy with it - I read it translated from French to Swedish, which was very well done.)
(Noted that some people of the English translation wasn't too happy with it - I read it translated from French to Swedish, which was very well done.)
March 13, 2016
J'ai eu l'impression de lire des jérémiades pendant 200 pages. C'est geignard, c'est redondant, et le style est digne d'une blogueuse de 15 ans encore au lycée.
Là où une De Vigan avait réussi à décrire le mal-être, c'est le naufrage pour Justine Lévy.
L'héroïne est tellement énervante, il n'est limite pas possible de compatir tellement on a l'impression d'être face à une adolescente en crise.
Bref, Justine s'est sans doute faire publier car elle est "fille de".
Là où une De Vigan avait réussi à décrire le mal-être, c'est le naufrage pour Justine Lévy.
L'héroïne est tellement énervante, il n'est limite pas possible de compatir tellement on a l'impression d'être face à une adolescente en crise.
Bref, Justine s'est sans doute faire publier car elle est "fille de".
July 9, 2010
Un livre dont on a parlé pour de mauvaises raisons. Je lui trouve beaucoup de talent.
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January 18, 2015vraiment pas terrible. aucun intérêt à ce livre. seulement 20 pages intéressantes sur tout le livre. c'est bien peu...
April 11, 2015
I just couldn't get into this book. The writing is badly punctuated. Not at all relaxing to read.
April 16, 2018
Ressentis parfaitement partagés sans mièvrerie. Justine Lévy partage sa lucidité avec un humour plaisant. Magnifique livre.
August 24, 2024
Ok, I have to admit this is all a bit voyeuristic.
When I lived in France in my 20s, I became a bit obsessed with Carla Bruni, the Italian heiress, model and singer/songwriter whose songs formed some of the soundtrack of my youth. She dated *everyone*; Mick Jagger, Éric Clapton and eventually Nicolas Sarkozy while he was in office which made her First Lady of France. In Raphaël, she sings about her relationship with this übermensch Raphaël Enthoven, who by the sounds of her description is the most incredible man alive. He’s an agrégé, which is a highly prestigious French governmental position, a professor of philosophy, an author and runs a philosophy TV show. He’s also revoltingly beautiful. And Bruni says some extremely flattering things about him. So anyway I read some of his works and became a fan of them as a couple.
Anyhoo it turns out that when Carla Bruni met Raphaël, he was married, and Bruni was dating his dad. They had an affair which broke up the marriage and Bruni/Enthoven became one of the big celebrity couples of France. Untidy.
Justine Lévy, Enthoven’s now ex-wife just so happens to be a famous and critically acclaimed author from a well-regarded literary family. So she took the time to write a (thinly veiled) novel about the whole imbroglio. So of course, I snook over to Amazon.fr and got myself a copy.
I was expecting a fun beach novel about celebrities getting up to no good. But it turned out to be so much more than that. The novel is beautiful and vulnerable, an account of addiction and loss and childhood. 18 years ago I got divorced, and there were things in this that I needed to hear.
When I lived in France in my 20s, I became a bit obsessed with Carla Bruni, the Italian heiress, model and singer/songwriter whose songs formed some of the soundtrack of my youth. She dated *everyone*; Mick Jagger, Éric Clapton and eventually Nicolas Sarkozy while he was in office which made her First Lady of France. In Raphaël, she sings about her relationship with this übermensch Raphaël Enthoven, who by the sounds of her description is the most incredible man alive. He’s an agrégé, which is a highly prestigious French governmental position, a professor of philosophy, an author and runs a philosophy TV show. He’s also revoltingly beautiful. And Bruni says some extremely flattering things about him. So anyway I read some of his works and became a fan of them as a couple.
Anyhoo it turns out that when Carla Bruni met Raphaël, he was married, and Bruni was dating his dad. They had an affair which broke up the marriage and Bruni/Enthoven became one of the big celebrity couples of France. Untidy.
Justine Lévy, Enthoven’s now ex-wife just so happens to be a famous and critically acclaimed author from a well-regarded literary family. So she took the time to write a (thinly veiled) novel about the whole imbroglio. So of course, I snook over to Amazon.fr and got myself a copy.
I was expecting a fun beach novel about celebrities getting up to no good. But it turned out to be so much more than that. The novel is beautiful and vulnerable, an account of addiction and loss and childhood. 18 years ago I got divorced, and there were things in this that I needed to hear.
February 8, 2021
I finished "Rien de grave" in french version it's quite simple alot of emotions towards every page i turn it's deep tragical story i read it on the taxi on my way to school in front of the sea in the obscurity of my room i love how sad an real the writer was about her feelings and i wanted to know more about Adrien and wanted a better and great chance for Pablo i enjoyed it crying over her grandma when she passed away about the cancer about her addiction i loved every part cause it made me feel things differently and now i m surprised that it's a autobiography book and that about her being the daughter of a well known great french writer and philosopher without mentioning that on the story but i loved the way her dad treat her btw i used to mark every thing i loved and find out in the end that i have marked alot of line in the most of the book's page now it's all of it coloured btw i didn't bought the book not even get it a gift there's someone who gave it to me better to throw it or sell it it was amoung a huge books of box it's already a year since i got it and now i read it
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June 2, 2021
Mi hanno consigliato questo libro e ho ceduto, dopotutto è un libro breve e non impegnativo.
La protagonista Louise dovrebbe essere l’autrice stessa, ma spero che ci sia stata qualche licenza narrativa, perché Louise mi è risultata antipaticissima.
Ha tanti difetti, comuni a tante persone, che possono anche essere divertenti, o simpatici, o carini. È distratta, pasticciona, infantile, viziata, timida, insicura, svampita.
Parla molto di delusione, di dolore, di perdita, di vergogna, di vuoto.
È scritto bene, scorrevole. Ma la mancanza di autocritica (se vogliamo rimanere in chiave buco nero sentimentale) o di autoironia (se vogliamo provare ad immaginare un libro con una Louise più amichevole) mi hanno fatto spesso domandare:”Ma perché devo dedicare ore della mia vita a leggere le riflessioni di questa piattola depressa?”
Non fa per me.
La protagonista Louise dovrebbe essere l’autrice stessa, ma spero che ci sia stata qualche licenza narrativa, perché Louise mi è risultata antipaticissima.
Ha tanti difetti, comuni a tante persone, che possono anche essere divertenti, o simpatici, o carini. È distratta, pasticciona, infantile, viziata, timida, insicura, svampita.
Parla molto di delusione, di dolore, di perdita, di vergogna, di vuoto.
È scritto bene, scorrevole. Ma la mancanza di autocritica (se vogliamo rimanere in chiave buco nero sentimentale) o di autoironia (se vogliamo provare ad immaginare un libro con una Louise più amichevole) mi hanno fatto spesso domandare:”Ma perché devo dedicare ore della mia vita a leggere le riflessioni di questa piattola depressa?”
Non fa per me.
July 6, 2024
Flusso di coscienza di una donna confusa. Si sente la sofferenza e la storia emerge faticosamente poco a poco. L'autenticità del tono è innegabile e coinvolgente anche se per chi non sa, come me quando l'ho letto, che quasi tutto è vero e che in sostanza la caduta agli inferi della protagonista è stata vissuta in prima persona dall'autrice. Che poi la donna che le porta via il marito sia proprio Carla Bruni è una sorpresa che non cambia tanto le cose.
Ma davvero è così facile nascondere tutto questo travaglio esterno e interno anche a chi ti vuole bene in quel particolare mondo e ambiente sociale? Questa rivelazione per me è stata la più scioccante.
Ma davvero è così facile nascondere tutto questo travaglio esterno e interno anche a chi ti vuole bene in quel particolare mondo e ambiente sociale? Questa rivelazione per me è stata la più scioccante.
August 11, 2017
Justine Lévy nous raconte sa rupture... Mais pas n'importe quelle rupture. En oubliant que cette rupture a fait la une de Paris Match, c'est surtout une histoire d'amour mondaine que j'ai lue. Une histoire d'amour qui ne ressemble pas à celles que j'ai vécues à 20 ans. À base d'amphétamines et d'égo trip.
J'ai néanmoins adhéré et me suis sentie en empathie avec cette jeune femme pas à l'aise avec sa myopie, son père intello-super-héros, et son allure d'adolescente.
Je relirai un de ses romans, juste pour voir.
J'ai néanmoins adhéré et me suis sentie en empathie avec cette jeune femme pas à l'aise avec sa myopie, son père intello-super-héros, et son allure d'adolescente.
Je relirai un de ses romans, juste pour voir.
March 19, 2017
I regret reading this book in English, not because the traduction was poorly done, but rather that, in reading the translation, in how Justine Levy paces and phrases, you can tell that this is a book that only really works in its original tongue, mostly because it is a confession in page form. I was a little surprised at how autobiographical this roman is-- even down to openly stating that her father's initials are BHL. I suppose when he's your dad and everyone knows it, you might as well be open about it, even when you're writing "fiction." Of course, "Paula" the Terminator with the killer smile is Carla Bruni. It's a book that properly represents the French attitude to love, etc.-- that Gallic shrug that it's "nothing serious" when there really is nothing at all more serious.
March 2, 2024
Pas fini , et pourtant je suis presque à la moitié , mais je me force de plus en plus .
Vu les critiques positives , je l’ai commence avec un certain enthousiasme et le début n’était pas mal malgré le style particulier .. mais c’est monotone , c’est lourd ..
Je comprends que ça reflète les états d’âme de l’auteure mais je m’ennuyais . Ce livre va finir dans la BAL
Vu les critiques positives , je l’ai commence avec un certain enthousiasme et le début n’était pas mal malgré le style particulier .. mais c’est monotone , c’est lourd ..
Je comprends que ça reflète les états d’âme de l’auteure mais je m’ennuyais . Ce livre va finir dans la BAL
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