by Chantal Thomas · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782020677448
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«Cafés de la mémoire» is the autobiography of Chantal Thomas, published by Seuil in 2008, in paperback (344 pages, in French).
Autobiographical account that begins on a carnival night in Nice, on the terrace of a café. From there, the cafés of memory resurface: the window-display ones, the secret ones, the artists' one. Between Arcachon, Bordeaux and Paris, a young woman fascinated by Simone de Beauvoir wants to become a philosopher and invent a new life for herself.
The edition is subtitled «récit» and belongs to the Réflexion collection from Seuil; the account spans from 1945 to 1969, from the liberation of France to the resignation of General De Gaulle.
For readers of memoirs and twentieth-century French literature, interested in youth, intellectual formation and the café as a cultural space.
Chantal Thomas is a French writer and historian. Her 2002 book, Farewell, My Queen, won the Prix Femina and was adapted into a 2012 film starring Diane Kruger and Léa Seydoux.
