Histoire de l'homme que sa femme vient de quitter

Synopsis of Histoire de l'homme que sa femme vient de quitter

«Histoire de l'homme que sa femme vient de quitter» is the novel by Jean-Philippe Arrou-Vignod, published by Gallimard in paperback (121 pages, in French).

A blocked novelist travels to Berlin to escape the book he cannot write. During the winter, he crosses paths with a seller of luxury pens, a flyweight boxer and a seductive admirer. These figures, between the comic and the tragic, gradually close in on his solitude and drag him towards a confrontation with his own ghosts.

Originally published in 1999; the cover bears the subtitle «roman» and the nrf imprint.

For readers of French fiction who enjoy short, intimate novels about writing and solitude.