Hector und die Geheimnisse der Liebe. Hector und die Entdeckung der Zeit

Hector #2-3

by François Lelord

Auf seiner Reise wird der junge Psychiater Hector zum Abenteurer des Herzens.Er entdeckt, wie kompliziert die Liebe sein Kann man nicht für immer verliebt bleiben? Warum liebt einer mehr als der andere? Warum hat Liebe die Macht, unsere tiefsten Sehnsüchte zu stillen? … Und schließlich verbringt Hector viel Zeit damit, über die Zeit nachzudenken. Über ihren steten Fluss und die Jahre, die verfliegen. Es gelingt ihm, das äußerst Flüchtige der Zeit einzufangen, die uns Tag für Tag davoneilt.

448 pages, Paperback

First published October 9, 2012

About the author

François Lelord, born 22 June 1953 in Paris is a French psychiatrist and author. He studied medicine and psychology. After getting his doctoral degree in 1985, he was a post-doctorate researcher with Robert Liberman at the University of California (UCLA), Los Angeles. He then worked as an attending physician at Hôpital Necker (which is affiliated with Descartes University) in Paris for two years.
In 1989 he opened up his own practice which he closed down in 1996 to work as an advisor on stress and job satisfaction for several companies. Having co-written various self-help books, he was commissioned to produce another but found himself instead writing a novel, Hector and the Search for Happiness, the first in a series of adventures featuring a psychiatrist protagonist. In 2004, Lelord went to work for an NGO in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. He now lives in Thailand with his wife and son. The film of Hector and the Search for Happiness is released in UK cinemas in August 2014, starring Simon Pegg and Rosamund Pike.

Reviews

[Dagmar K]

Anfangs war die Geschichte ja noch ganz lustig, jedoch später ziemlich abstrus. Ich habe das Buch nicht bis zum Ende gelesen.