by Erik Orsenna · Stock · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782234056985
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«Les Chevaliers du Subjonctif» is the novel by Erik Orsenna, published by Stock in paperback (176 pages, in French).
Jeanne and Thomas return to the archipelago of the Mots, ruled by the dictator Nécrole. After Thomas's disappearance, Jeanne escapes with a cartographer in a glider and reaches the island of the Subjonctifs, where rebels defend the subjunctive as the language of desire and possibility, against a regime that wants to control words.
Second instalment of the adventures of Jeanne and Thomas, sequel to «La grammaire est une chanson douce», published in French in 2004.
For readers of French fiction who enjoy fables about language, freedom and imagination.
Érik Orsenna is the pen-name of Érik Arnoult a French politician and novelist. After studying philosophy and political science at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris, Orsenna specialized in economics at the London School of Economics. He was a close collaborator of François Mitterrand and held several government positions in the 1980s and 1990s. He is a member of the Conseil d'État, having been appointed in 1985. He was elected to the Académie Française on 28 May 1998. He won the 1990 International Nonino Prize in Italy. For Voyage au pays du coton he received the second prize of the Lettre Ulysses Award in 2006.
