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Cordon-bleu

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Balbus a atteint l’âge de la retraite et Cordon-bleu retrace sa dernière mission, dans une grande ville de province. Une organisation clandestine internationale (que dirige un certain Dieu, mais il s’agit d’un sobriquet) lui ordonne de feindre la maladie devant un jeune médecin au grand cœur. Balbus obéit – comme il a toujours obéi. (Balbus est obsédé par la soumission et la hiérarchie). Son second, Varadarayan Desikan, lui obéit ; c’est l’ordre des choses et Balbus aime l’ordre des choses.
Pourquoi l’organisation s’intéresse-t-elle à ce jeune Docteur Choblet ? Varadarayan ira-t-il, par conscience professionnelle, jusqu’à séduire Madame Jeannet, la voisine de palier ? Quel est le rôle du cruciverbiste rencontré dans les jardins du château ?
Cordon-bleu se joue du roman à suspens comme les frères Marx, jadis, se jouaient de Casablanca. On peut lire Cordon-bleu en noir et blanc, au rythme saccadé d’un film burlesque. On peut aussi lire Cordon-bleu en couleurs. (Balbus est obsédé par les couleurs).

128 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1987

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Patrick Deville

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Patrick Deville (born 14 December 1957) is a French writer and studied comparative literature and philosophy at the University of Nantes. During the 1980s, Patrick Deville lived in the Middle East, Nigeria and Algeria. In the 1990s, he regularly visited Cuba and Uruguay.

In 2011, Lire magazine editors selected Kampuchea as the best French novel of the year. His novel Plague and Cholera (life of the bacteriologist Alexandre Yersin) was one of the most prominent of the literary season (2012), and was a finalist in almost all French book awards. He received the Fnac and the Prix Femina prize for the novel.

His books have now been translated into a dozen languages.

(Rephrased from Wikipedia)

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