“We have death insurance, car insurance, and car death insurance,” David Fonkinos, a novelist and Psychologies columnist, tells readers, “but no one knows what to do when they’re lucky.” Imagine: you are young, healthy, loved, you have a decent job, a talented child and grouchy but sweet parents. What, already bored? What to do: start a romance or learn to appreciate what you have? The irony of Fonkinos is emotionally accurate: being dissatisfied is habitual. Being happy year after year is hard. Need to study.
Translated from French by Irina Staff. Corpus, 224 p.