by Lionel Duroy · J'ai lu · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782290031568
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«Le chagrin» is the novel by Lionel Duroy, published by J'ai lu in paperback (736 pages, in French).
The novel follows a French family from the Occupation to the present day, through the Algerian War and May '68. At its centre is a child trapped by family fate: witness to his parents' failures and wounds, he grows up marked by an inheritance he tries to understand.
The edition belongs to the «J'ai lu Roman» collection and was published in 2011. The cover features the 2010 Grand Prix Marie Claire for the novel of emotion.
Lionel Duroy de Suduiraut is a French writer and journalist born in Bizerte (Tunisia) into an impoverished family of aristocratic origin who long shared extreme right-wing ideas. His youth in this environment left a profound mark on him and was the breeding ground for many of his books.. Lionel Duroy was first a delivery man, a courier, a worker, then a journalist at Libération and at L'événement du jeudi. Since the publication of his first novel in 1990, he has devoted himself entirely to writing novels with essentially autobiographical content. He is happy to talk about his mother, the family trauma linked to his father's war wounds and the legal expulsion of his family from their home in 1955 - following a lack of solidarity from the rest of the family.
