"A Man Alone" by Frédéric Beigbeder read by Tom Besnier, student in European and International Studies
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Students at the Sorèze military boarding school for boys, where Frédéric Beigbeder's father attended. (Nicolas Thibaut/Photononstop)
The father, a tutelary figure or an absent silhouette, imposes himself on our intimate constructions like an old scar. Whether it is an absence or an excess, the paternal presence greatly influences the man in the making. In A Man Alone , Frédéric Beigbeder addresses his father, who died two years earlier. His book is an attempt to understand the man whose name he bears, an absent father who is silent about his feelings.
Far from the excess of 99 Francs but just as intimate as A French Novel (Grasset, 2000 and 2009), Frédéric Beigbeder achieves with A Man Alone what he does best: telling us a story through his own. Throughout the novel, he investigates the life of Jean-Michel Beigbeder, born in 1938, a multifaceted character
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