Gaieté parisienne se déroule dans un drôle de Paris, à la fin du XXe siècle. Nicolas, intellectuel d'une trentaine d'années, s'efforce de séduire le jeune Julien, étudiant en gestion, très à l'aise dans la société moderne. Des boîtes de nuit aux cités de banlieue, des berges de la Seine au bord de la mer, leur course-poursuite traverse un paysage étrange, mêlant les vestiges du vieux monde aux entreprises de rénovation.
Benoît Duteurtre (20 March 1960 – 16 July 2024) was a French novelist and essayist. He was also a musical critic, musician, producer and host of a radio show about music. He spent his time between Paris, New York and Normandy.
Benoît Duteurtre was born in Sainte-Adresse, Seine-Maritime, Upper Normandy, where he spent his first years. He was the son of Jean-Claude Duteurtre and Marie-Claire Georges. He was also the great-grandson of the French president René Coty. He attended Saint-Joseph, a Catholic educational institution in Le Havre. Duteurtre began to write at an early age. At fifteen, he presented his first texts to Armand Salacrou, a French dramatist established in Le Havre, who encouraged him to pursue his efforts. Le Havre, a heavily destroyed city during World War II and rebuilt in the structural classicism style will often reappear in Duteurtre's later works.
At the age of sixteen, Benoît Duteurtre was fascinated with modern music, especially the work of Pierre Boulez. In 1977, Benoît began musicology studies at the University of Rouen, France. That same year, he met Karlheinz Stockhausen and, a year later, Iannis Xenakis. In 1979, Benoît Duteurtre studied for a month with György Ligeti, whose musical theory later had a strong influence in his life. He graduated with a license in Musicology.
Call me cynical, but I really loved that this should-have-been love story didn't end happily. I started reading this in Paris because I really enjoy reading a book that takes place in the city I am visiting. I had an amazing time in Paris, and I am glad that I didn't have too much time to read while I was there. The evocations of the city in the book are often drab and depressing and cold, but I loved how there were many different camps, different ideologies brought together in characters. Yet, they don't work for the main character. People keep telling him things, but he ends in his own way, continuing to search but having rejected or not fully accepted the ways of others. It kind of needs a sequel though because I would like to see him find some kind of way, but maybe that is not at all the ending the author wanted.
…where we follow Nicolas, a French yuppie-type thirty-something, in his fruitless, yet graphic quest for indifferent Julien, through his tentative forays into the “gay” Paris of homosexual nightclubs and parties. In French.
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