by Henry Bauchau · Actes Sud · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782742771691
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«Le boulevard périphérique» is the novel by Henry Bauchau, published by Actes Sud in paperback (254 pages, in French).
In 1980s Paris, the narrator accompanies his stepdaughter with cancer while evoking Stéphane, the friend who taught him to climb and overcome fear before joining the Resistance and dying in unexplained circumstances. Colonel Shadow, the Nazi officer who captured Stéphane, tints the hospital present with memory, friendship and loss.
Winner of the Prix du Livre Inter 2008. Henry Bauchau (1913-2012) was a Belgian novelist, poet and psychoanalyst.
A work for readers of contemporary French fiction who appreciate intimate stories about memory, illness and loss.
Henry Bauchau was a Belgian political activist and psychoanalyst who is best known as an author of poetry, novels, and plays in French language.
