by Erik Orsenna · SEUIL · tapa dura · ISBN 9782020105774
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«L'Exposition coloniale» is the novel by French writer Erik Orsenna, published by Seuil in hardback (560 pages, in French).
The novel follows Gabriel, a French engineer in love with rubber, from the late 19th century to the mid-20th. Through his adventures with Ann and Clara, the narrative portrays the history of France, colonial dreams, and an era marked by mechanics and war, with an ironic, picaresque tone.
The work received the Prix Goncourt in 1988 and the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens that same year; in 1992 it was a finalist for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.
For readers of French fiction and literary fiction interested in an ironic view of recent history.
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.
