L'amour fou

by Françoise Hardy

Françoise Hardy décrypte les douches froides et les impasses dévastatrices provoquées par l'ambiguïté de l'homme dont une femme est tombée éperdument amoureuse. Avec une sensibilité à fleur de peau, elle analyse la passion qui déchire deux êtres très dissemblables et pourtant aussi incapables l'un que l'autre de sortir du cercle vicieux des souffrances qu'ils s'infligent. Une sorte de Princesse de Clèves moderne, qui étonne par la description des ravages d'une incurable sidération amoureuse.

Genres: France, Roman

151 pages, Paperback

First published October 31, 2012

About the author

Françoise Madeleine Hardy was a French singer-songwriter. She made her musical debut in the early 1960s on Disques Vogue and found immediate success with her song "Tous les garçons et les filles". As a leading figure of the yé-yé movement, Hardy "found herself at the very forefront of the French music scene", and became "France's most exportable female singing star", recording in various languages, appearing in several movies, touring throughout Europe, and gaining admiration from musicians such as Bob Dylan and Mick Jagger. With the aid of photographer Jean-Marie Périer, Hardy also begun modelling and soon became a popular fashion icon as well.

As the yé-yé era drew to a close in the late 1960s, Hardy sought to reinvent herself, casting off the fashionable girl next door image that Périer had created for her and abandoning the "cute" and catchy compositions that had characterized her repertoire up to that point; working with more accomplished songwriters such as Leonard Cohen,Serge Gainsbourg, and Patrick Modiano. Her 1971 album La question represented an important turning point in her career, moving towards a more mature style; it remains her most acclaimed work and has generated a dedicated cult following over the years. The early 1970s also marked the beginning of Hardy's renowned involvement with astrology, becoming an expert and writer of the subject over the years.

Hardy remained a popular figure in music and fashion, and is considered an icon of French pop and the 1960s.

She was married to fellow French singer-songwriter Jacques Dutronc in 1981 until her death, and their only son, Thomas, is also a musician. In 2021, Hardy announced that her health had worsened and that she would not be able to sing again owing to the effects of cancer therapy. She died of cancer in Paris in 2024.

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Reviews

[leslecturesdesophie · Rating 1 out of 5]

Les dernières phrases résument bien ce roman si long...: « mais je suis de celles qui croient qu’il n’y a pas d’amour heureux, alors forcement, tu es de ceux qui fuient le bonheur de peur qu’il ne se sauve... »
Allers retours de souffrance, entre on croit le personnage féminin victime d’un abominable pervers narcissique ou bien on se demande si elle ne préfère finalement pas se voir souffrir... bref rien de réjouissant.

[Magnolitaz · Rating 3 out of 5]

"Per lei non c'era niente al mondo che fosse paragonabile alla felicità di rannicchiarsi contro di lui, e di baciarlo a ogni istante, fino a che la progressiva ascesa del desiderio non imponeva di andare oltre."