Le Patio bleu | Denis Tillinac | Presses de la cité

EAN : 9782258192225

Shaping : BROCHE

Pages : 320

Size : 140 x 225 mm

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The Blue Patio

Denis Tillinac

Release date : 05/11/2020

A chronicler, the author has drawn, in this last novel, the nostalgic and insightful portrait of a tired generation that the French countryside reassures, covering a friendship half a century old between a man and a woman.

A group of friends, middle-aged bourgeois, used to gather in the blue patio around the charismatic figure of Marie-Anne. Like the narrator, a ENA graduate who has led a career as a diplomat without ambition nor conviction, they are worn out by their Parisian life, by the new world which... A group of friends, middle-aged bourgeois, used to gather in the blue patio around the charismatic figure of Marie-Anne. Like the narrator, a ENA graduate who has led a career as a diplomat without ambition nor conviction, they are worn out by their Parisian life, by the new world which is imposing itself on them and from which they feel excluded. They believe they will find in a small town of the Gers - Southern France, the reassuring haven where to settle before the specter of nursing homes is raised. A long friendship binds Marie-Anne and the narrator, a complete friendship, in which love is never far away, chronicled in this novel. Past more or less distant and present intertwine in the intimate and melancholic tale of a character who takes a lucid and disenchanted glance at things and people, at the cracks of society. The themes dear to Denis Tillinac’s heart are found in Le Patio bleu: faithful friendship, the weight of the past and of memories, the opposition between Paris, seen as a fake Eldorado, and the sleepy and disinherited province, the mistrust in the spirit and excesses of the times, the aspirations of youth confronted with a life already made and nearing old age.

The moving story of a man whose professional and social paths are each time guided by a woman who will always remain at the core of his life.

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EAN : 9782258192225

Shaping : BROCHE

Pages : 320

Size : 140 x 225 mm

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