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Célibataires
Les rencontres amoureuses sur Internet… c’est la fin des agences matrimoniales ! Michel et Sylvie sont deux employés de ces sociétés en voie de disparition. Célibataires, ils mettent leur cœur à aider les autres. Jusqu’à s’oublier eux-mêmes. Comme plus personne ne vient dans l’agence, il serait peut-être temps qu’ils s’occupent enfin d’eux ?Dans cette première comédie de David Foenkinos, on retrouve son univers plein de fantaisie et d’humour. Réflexions sur le couple, sur la solitude, sur le divorce, sur l’angoisse du bonheur (et oui ça existe !), et sur l’art de danser subitement le tango.
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75 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 5, 2014
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About the author
David Foenkinos
61 books2,143 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 30, 2018
Histoire trop courte pour qu’on développe et s’attache aux personnages. Le sujet n’est plus d’actualité.
June 19, 2020
Une petite pièce de théâtre très amusante et bien écrite. Très agréable à lire, je serais curieuse de la voir jouer !
October 29, 2023
lecture légère et sympa
January 24, 2024
Histoire beaucoup trop courte
August 5, 2025
J’ai apprécié l’humour et la légèreté de la pièce mais beaucoup trop courteeee ‼️
Je ne sais pas si je vais me souvenir de cette lecture mais j’ai passé un bon moment tout de même.
Je ne sais pas si je vais me souvenir de cette lecture mais j’ai passé un bon moment tout de même.
Displaying 1 - 5 of 5 reviews