by Erik Orsenna · Le Livre de Poche · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253114345
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«Les Chevaliers du Subjonctif» is the novel by Erik Orsenna, published by Le Livre de Poche in paperback (190 pages, in French).
Allegorical fable about language: the dictator Nécrole and the inspector Jargonos want to subjugate words, while Jeanne and Thomas, pursued by the police, take refuge on the island of the Subjonctif. There the subjunctive represents desire and imagination, and language becomes a territory of freedom and creation.
Second instalment of the series «Plaisirs secrets de la grammaire», after «La grammaire est une chanson douce».
Aimed at the general public, especially readers interested in the French language and literature.
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.
