by Sylvain Tesson · FOLIO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070437917
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«Une vie à coucher dehors» is the collection of fifteen short stories by Sylvain Tesson, published by Folio in paperback (208 pages, in French).
The stories take place in Siberia, Scotland, the coves of the Aegean and Georgia. Their characters clash with the harshness of the landscape and with a fate that thwarts any human plan; the work reflects on the smallness of the individual and on the idea that even a bad ending is better than passing without leaving a trace.
Winner of the Prix Goncourt de la Nouvelle in 2009; this paperback edition was published on 14 October 2010.
For readers of short fiction and French literature, with an interest in travel settings and nature.
Sylvain Tesson is a French writer and traveller born in Paris. He has engaged in a number of unusual travels and expeditions which are the basis for his books. Among his most successful works are The Consolations of the Forest (2011), about a project to live alone in a Siberian cabin for six months and The Art of Patience (2019), about the quest for snow leopards in Tibet. For the latter book, he received the Prix Renaudot.
