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Petit éloge de la bicyclette
"Aujourd'hui encore, quand me guettent des pages d'écriture, mes ordres de grandeur sont convertis en intensité physique. Cela peut sembler incongru ou trivial de comparer le noble effort des lettres et celui du rémouleur de bitume. Pour moi, ils sont égaux et, pour tout dire, la fibre cycliste, parce qu'elle m'a souvent remué la chair, m'est apparue comme une préparation sans pareille pour affronter le vertige des mots, l'épaisseur du langage au milieu duquel le chemin est étroit pour trouver le ton juste, le bon rythme, l'image, la couleur, la musique, l'émotion, la grâce." Éric Fottorino.
135 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published October 4, 2007
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About the author
Éric Fottorino
166 books40 followersÉric Fottorino is a French journalist and writer. He is the winner of the Prix Femina, 2007, for Baisers de cinéma. After having been a reporter for the daily newspaper Le Monde, then becoming editor-in-chief and executive editor, he was appointed president of the directory group of the La Vie-Le Monde group in January 2008. He was removed from this latter office in December 2010.
His biological father, Maurice Maman, was of Moroccan and Jewish origin and was a gynecology student when he met his mother. The ultra-Catholic family of his mother, Monique Charbrerie, was opposed to their marriage. The young Eric was raised without his father. When he was 9, his mother married Michael Fottorino, a physiotherapist. It’s at this time that he took the name of Eric Fottorino. It was only years later that he managed to contact his biological father.
In 1984, after studies at the Faculty of Law at the University of La Rochelle and then at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris, Eric Fottorino started as a freelance reporter for Libération and La Tribune de l’économie.
He joined the daily newspaper Le Monde in 1986, initially as a news desk editor, tracking records of incoming source material, eventually moving on to work with agricultural and African source material. He then became a reporter (1995-1997) before becoming editor-in-chief in 1998, then a chroniqueur (a journalist who writes as a specialist in a particular domain) in 2003.
His biological father, Maurice Maman, was of Moroccan and Jewish origin and was a gynecology student when he met his mother. The ultra-Catholic family of his mother, Monique Charbrerie, was opposed to their marriage. The young Eric was raised without his father. When he was 9, his mother married Michael Fottorino, a physiotherapist. It’s at this time that he took the name of Eric Fottorino. It was only years later that he managed to contact his biological father.
In 1984, after studies at the Faculty of Law at the University of La Rochelle and then at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris, Eric Fottorino started as a freelance reporter for Libération and La Tribune de l’économie.
He joined the daily newspaper Le Monde in 1986, initially as a news desk editor, tracking records of incoming source material, eventually moving on to work with agricultural and African source material. He then became a reporter (1995-1997) before becoming editor-in-chief in 1998, then a chroniqueur (a journalist who writes as a specialist in a particular domain) in 2003.
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May 9, 2020
Eh bien ça se lit vite et c'est bien écrit !
August 5, 2021
J’ai adoré ce livre écrit par un passionné de cyclisme mais aussi écrivain de talent
Entre l’historique , le jargon de la petite reine , les champions cyclistes , les courses mythiques le dopage et le simple plaisir immense de pédaler ... on ne s’ennuie pas une seconde et on partage avec Éric Fortorino la joie des sorties a 2 roues
Entre l’historique , le jargon de la petite reine , les champions cyclistes , les courses mythiques le dopage et le simple plaisir immense de pédaler ... on ne s’ennuie pas une seconde et on partage avec Éric Fortorino la joie des sorties a 2 roues
April 4, 2013
N’étant pas du tout fan de cyclisme, j’ai longtemps repoussé la lecture de cet éloge-ci, mais finalement, il m’a bien plu. L’auteur est vraiment passionné par son sujet et ça se ressent à la lecture. Même s’il n’a pas su me transmettre cette passion, celle-ci a rendu ma lecture plus agréable.
(Relecture en avril 2013)
(Relecture en avril 2013)
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