by François Weyergans · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782246472810
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«Franz et François» is the novel by François Weyergans, published by B. Grasset in paperback (413 pages, in French).
Father and son are writers of opposing works: Franz triumphed in the 1940s with Catholic novels about love and fidelity; François wrote the inverse image of those books. Twenty years after his father's death, François tries to initiate the dialogue they never had, in a posthumous duel between lucidity and humour.
Originally published in 1997, the novel received the Grand Prix de la langue française.
François Weyergans was a Belgian writer and director. His father, Franz Weyergans, was a Belgian and also a writer, while his mother was from Avignon in France. François Weyergans was elected to the Académie française on 26 March 2009, taking the 32nd seat which became vacant with the death of Alain Robbe-Grillet in 2008.
