Tous les matins je me lève

by Jean-Paul Dubois

Paul Ackerman se lève tous les matins à midi. C'est un détail qui suffit à vous mettre en porte-à-faux, un pas à côté du monde. La nuit, Paul Ackerman écrit des romans pour nourrir sa famille et mène de front, en rêve, une triple carrière de rugbyman, de golfeur et d'homme-oiseau. Le reste du temps, sa vie ne ressemble à rien, mais elle a le mérite de lui ressembler.

Genres: Roman

212 pages, Paperback

First published February 25, 1988

About the author

Jean-Paul Dubois (b. 1950) is a French journalist and author. He is the author of several novels and travel pieces, and reports for Le Nouvel Observateur. His novel, Une vie française, published in French in 2004 and in English in 2007, is a saga of the French baby boom generation, from the idealism of the 1960s to the consumerism of the 1990s. The French version of the novel won the Prix Femina. He won the Prix Goncourt in 2019 for Tous les hommes n'habitent pas le monde de la même façon ("All Men Do Not Inhabit This World in the Same Way"), a novel told from the perspective of a prisoner looking back on life.

Reviews

[Taisia · Rating 1 out of 5]

Why? Just why?
I tried to finish this book for 8 months. 8!!! Just to not have unfinished business let's say.
But how slow it was. How not useful at all? Where is the story? What was the purpose?
Why he created this book? And why somebody published it? Why somebody bought it and then I bought it as a second hand book to improve my French? Why?!
Feel like I pushed myself for nothing.
Only milk, cars and hiw weird family. His moments of sleeping and waking up. Why?
I knew it would be bad, but I didn't expect it to be so bad.

[dblackn8 · Rating 4 out of 5]

C'est un livre très calme, mais j'ai plutôt aimé cela. Il a réussi a y glisser assez de humour et d'étrangeté pour me faire apprécier la lecture et surtout il m'a rappelé que parfois ca va aussi bien de laisser de côté ses taches pour encore un ou deux jours (pour lire un livre...par exemple).

[Romy Schlegel · Rating 4 out of 5]

Et tous les soirs je me couche
Comme les livres de JP Dubois, tous les jours se ressemblent