by Henry Bauchau · Actes Sud · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782742784936
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«Le boulevard périphérique» is the novel by Henry Bauchau, published by Actes Sud in paperback (256 pages, in French).
Paris, 1980: while accompanying his stepdaughter ill with cancer, the narrator evokes Stéphane, the friend who taught him to climb and overcome fear. Stéphane joined the Resistance, was captured by the Nazi officer Shadow, and died in unexplained circumstances. Past and hospital dialogue between uncertainty and hope.
The novel, originally published in 2008 by Actes Sud, won the Prix du Livre Inter; this paperback edition belongs to the Babel collection.
For readers of contemporary French fiction interested in memory, war, and the experience of illness.
Henry Bauchau was a Belgian political activist and psychoanalyst who is best known as an author of poetry, novels, and plays in French language.
