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Entre les oreilles
« Mon psychanalyste, constatant la vanité de ses efforts pour m'aider à mettre de l'ordre dans ma vie sentimentale, fit l'inventaire des causes de mes ruptures : Mathilde n'aimait pas les ciels ocre de Basse-Normandie (je maintiens, c'est rédhibitoire), Joséphine n'avait pas lu Virgile (je ne pouvais pas me commettre avec une telle fille, c'eût été cautionner), Christine buvait son café sans sucre (manque de goût évident), Ghislaine avait lu Virgile (je passais pour un idiot quand elle m'en parlait), et Catherine s'appelait Catherine (sans commentaires). »
208 pages, Paperback
First published August 26, 2002
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About the author
David Foenkinos
63 books2,252 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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September 28, 2022
alors. je pense que j'ai pas commencé par le bon livre de foenkinos parce qu'on tourne un peu en rond mais ses métaphores et sa manière d'écrire est incroyable
si on se penche un peu plus sur les messages transmis par le livre je comprends qu'il faut pas hésiter à avoir du culot concernant les gens à qui on a envie de parler parce que ca mène souvent à des amitiés géniales, et d'autre part les potes avant les meufs (periodt)
si on se penche un peu plus sur les messages transmis par le livre je comprends qu'il faut pas hésiter à avoir du culot concernant les gens à qui on a envie de parler parce que ca mène souvent à des amitiés géniales, et d'autre part les potes avant les meufs (periodt)
April 28, 2024
Complètement barré mais manque justement de fil conducteur. De nombreux moments trop rapides et éclipsés, d’autres détours qui au contraire rallongent inutilement le récit.
Un livre absurde qui fait tout de même sourire.
Un livre absurde qui fait tout de même sourire.
June 24, 2024
Franchement c’était pas un chef d’œuvre mais j’ai passé un super moment de lecture, comme toujours l’écriture de Foenkinos est un régale. On voit que son style a bien évolué depuis mais j’ai apprécié l’honnêteté des débuts !
March 17, 2026
Dumper quelqu'un à cause de ses oreilles, c'est un power move.
August 8, 2016
- Cette impression que l'on invente des vivants pour surmonter les morts. - Tu es l'idée de ma survie.
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