by Agota Kristof · Points · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782757835104
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«Le grand cahier» is the novel by Ágota Kristóf, published by Points in paperback, with 167 pages in French.
In a country ravaged by war, the twins Claus and Lucas are sent to live with their grandmother. To resist a hostile environment, they subject themselves to a demanding regimen of physical and mental exercises and record their experiences in a large notebook with deliberate coldness, without sentimental concessions.
First instalment of the twins trilogy (La trilogie des jumeaux); completed by La Preuve and Le Troisième Mensonge. The work was originally published in 1986.
Of interest to readers of contemporary classics and European fiction about war and childhood.
Ágota Kristóf was a Hungarian writer who lived in Switzerland and wrote in French. Kristóf received the "European prize" from ADELF, the association of Francophone authors, for Le Grand Cahier. It was followed by two sequels which are collectively The Notebook Trilogy. She won the 2001 Gottfried Keller Award in Switzerland and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature in 2008.
