Two novels by an extraordinary French writer, essayist Pascal Bruckner were published by the Text publishing house at once. Written with a difference of 20 years, these books unexpectedly have something in common with meanings and subtexts…
Immediately two novels by an extraordinary French writer, essayist Pascal Bruckner, were released by the Text publishing house. Written with a difference of 20 years, these books unexpectedly have something in common with meanings and subtexts … The plot of the first of them — «Bitter Moon» — is partly familiar from the film of the same name by Roman Polanski. In the center of the story are two young couples who met on a ship sailing from Marseille to Istanbul. One of the couples (Franz and Rebecca) makes a strange impression: he is a wheelchair-bound paraplegic, she is a 20-year-old beauty. Through the shocking story of their love, Bruckner shows the underside of passionate relationships with their infantilism and desire for pleasure at any cost, highly cultivated in modern society. Otherwise, the same theme is explored in the novel «My Little Husband». The protagonist of this incredible story, the father of the Leon family, with the birth of each child, decreases in height until he finally turns into a midget. Since then, the hero famously drives around in a toy «jaguar» and sleeps on a bookshelf, but an entertaining plot does not overshadow the seriousness of the problem. In order to survive and grow (that is, to become himself), Leon is forced to do adult things.
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