by Jean-Marie Gourio · Robert Laffont · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782221115275
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«Le grand café des brèves de comptoir» is the humor collection by Jean-Marie Gourio, published by Robert Laffont in paperback (925 pages, in French).
The book gathers some 9,000 'brèves de comptoir': spontaneous phrases and dialogues that Jean-Marie Gourio noted down in hundreds of cafés across France. They are quips from anonymous customers full of humor, irony and social satire that portray everyday bar conversation.
Published on 17 October 2013; the cover announces 9,000 unpublished brèves.
For readers curious about French popular humor and about bar life as a social portrait.
Jean-Marie Gourio is a French novelist, humorist and screenwriter. He was born in Nérac, Lot-et-Garonne. He won early fame for his column Brèves de comptoir, published in the satirical magazine Hara-Kiri. Compilations of the columns were published annually, and even adapted for the stage.
