by Barbara Pym · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782267005363
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«Quatuor d'automne» is the novel by Barbara Pym, published by Christian Bourgois in 1988 in paperback (236 pages, in French).
Four office workers nearing retirement maintain a grey and solitary routine in London that they only find bearable thanks to their quartet. When two of them retire, the group falls out of step, revealing fragility, lack of communication, and a restrained humour with which Pym portrays old age and everyday resilience.
The novel, set in a London office, was nominated for the Man Booker Prize.
For readers of twentieth-century British fiction who appreciate quiet humour and psychological observation.
Barbara Mary Crampton Pym was an English novelist. In the 1950s, she published a series of social comedies, of which the best known are Excellent Women (1952) and A Glass of Blessings (1958). After a period of rejection by publishers, her career was revived in 1977 when the critic Lord David Cecil and the poet Philip Larkin nominated her as the most underrated writer of the previous 75 years. Her novel Quartet in Autumn (1977) was nominated for the Booker Prize that year, and she was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
