by Jean Rouaud · n/a · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782707315632
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«Le Monde à peu près» is the novel by Jean Rouaud published by Les Éditions de Minuit in paperback (253 pages, in French).
Jean Rouaud narrates the youth of a short-sighted boy prone to blunders, whose plans never quite work out. The novel portrays the ordinary sadness of everyday lives with humour and precision, achieving a distinctive tone in which the comic and the dramatic intertwine.
It is the third instalment of Jean Rouaud's family and autobiographical novel cycle; the novel was published in 1996. In 1999 it was nominated for the Grinzane Cavour Prize in the foreign fiction category.
It will appeal to readers of French literary fiction and to those who appreciate autobiographical narrative.
Jean Rouaud is a French author, who was born in Campbon, Loire-Atlantique. In 1990 his novel Fields of Glory won the Prix Goncourt. First believed to be the first book in a trilogy, Fields of Glory turned out to be the first book in a series of five books on the family history of the author.
