by Guy Bedos · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782234061514
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«Le jour et l'heure» is the novel by Guy Bedos, published by Stock in paperback (135 pages, in French).
The narrator, an ageing filmmaker who closely resembles Guy Bedos, lives mired in resentment after a past success and contemplates ending his life; he only wants to choose the day and the hour. His children find his pages of rage, suicidal impulses and final loving thoughts, and each reads them and responds to him. The novel is choral: father, son and daughters.
Originally published on 5 November 2008, it is Guy Bedos's first novel and carries the subtitle «roman».
For readers of contemporary French fiction and for those seeking a novel built on multiple voices.
Guy Bedos was a French screenwriter, stand-up comedian and actor. He was a French man born in Algeria, a former French department. He is identified as a Pied-Noir, name given to the French people by the Algerians in assimilation with the French sailors who were navigating with steam boat. As they were walking barefoot on coal their feet were black. At Music-Hall, he interpreted various sketches of authors like him. He developed a regularly updated political satire. This satire affected mostly right-wing politicians, his "friends" of the left also suffer from his cutting reflections.
