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EAN : 9782260030072
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 216
Size : 1 x 205 mm
A Character from a Novel

Release date : 07/09/2017
Emmanuel Macron is like “a character from a novel”  for Philippe Besson, a close friend of the president and his wife Brigitte, who recounts the compelling conquest of the Élysée Palace.
On August 30th , 2016, Philippe Besson was watching the television news when Emmanuel Macron announced his departure from the government. Suddenly it was for Besson a “revelation”: the man speaking on the screen would be the next president of the French Republic!  Besson was already a close friend of... On August 30th , 2016, Philippe Besson was watching the television news when Emmanuel Macron announced his departure from the government. Suddenly it was for Besson a “revelation”: the man speaking on the screen would be the next president of the French Republic!  Besson was already a close friend of the Macrons and after the minister’s televised resignation, the writer had only one obsession: being part of his friend’s campaign team and telling the story of his rise to presidency. Un personnage de roman is Besson’s daily log while accopanying Macron and his wife Brigitte for a year. The novel, written in almost a surgical manner, relates their one-on-one conversations, while Emmanuel Macron offers his writer friend an intense and surprising political-literary psychoanalysis.
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EAN : 9782260030072
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 216
Size : 1 x 205 mm
Julliard