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ISBN10: 2234071089
ISBN13: 9782234071087
Publisher: Stock
Published: Nov 8 2021
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.55 Width: 5.32 Depth: 8.47
Language: French
ISBN13: 9782234071087
Publisher: Stock
Published: Nov 8 2021
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.55 Width: 5.32 Depth: 8.47
Language: French
Charles Valérien is a young man of today. At twenty-four he has inherited his godmother's apartment in Passy, secured his first job, bought himself furniture on the internet and filmed himself laying his wood-effect floor. A good start in life, and yet it's a life that only has any value in a virtual world. For him and the people he knows it's on ShowYou - the social network with the most hits in the world - that you actually live and show yourself in your best light. Better yet, it's there that you earn the respect of those above you in the hierarchy.
It is at this point that he meets Anne-Laure, known as Al, a student at the Sorbonne, along with the hare-brained members of her rock band. Not one of them has a ShowYou account. So there can be a world outside the internet. It is with that world, as well as Anne-Laure herself, that the narrator falls in love.
An androgynous dancer, an angry blogger, an antisocial old woman and an obese writer - distorted reflections of the young man and his loneliness - also populate this contemporary fable in which entertainment at any price doesn't get the better of boredom, where someone who witnesses other people's lives isn't necessarily in control of their own, where the enemy is not who we think.
Enjoy is a portrait of the Y Generation, the internet generation, never far from their screens but losing control of their lives, sincere if not downright cynical, and consumed by feelings of pointlessness in the hell of their voyeurism.
The very dictatorial ShowYou is used avidly by Solange Bied-Charreton's chosen narrator who is just entering adulthood; and in it the reader will recognise Facebook, Twitter, YouTube... Because Enjoy is the portrait of a generation intoxicated by social networks - a disenchanted portrait but one with its own caustic sense of humour.
Solange Bied-Charreton describes a world she knows well: amongst other things, she wrote a literary blog from 2005 to 2010, and is still a presence on the web through the articles she writes about literature and music.
Solange Bied-Charreton is 29, and lives and works in Paris. Enjoy is her first novel.
It is at this point that he meets Anne-Laure, known as Al, a student at the Sorbonne, along with the hare-brained members of her rock band. Not one of them has a ShowYou account. So there can be a world outside the internet. It is with that world, as well as Anne-Laure herself, that the narrator falls in love.
An androgynous dancer, an angry blogger, an antisocial old woman and an obese writer - distorted reflections of the young man and his loneliness - also populate this contemporary fable in which entertainment at any price doesn't get the better of boredom, where someone who witnesses other people's lives isn't necessarily in control of their own, where the enemy is not who we think.
Enjoy is a portrait of the Y Generation, the internet generation, never far from their screens but losing control of their lives, sincere if not downright cynical, and consumed by feelings of pointlessness in the hell of their voyeurism.
The very dictatorial ShowYou is used avidly by Solange Bied-Charreton's chosen narrator who is just entering adulthood; and in it the reader will recognise Facebook, Twitter, YouTube... Because Enjoy is the portrait of a generation intoxicated by social networks - a disenchanted portrait but one with its own caustic sense of humour.
Solange Bied-Charreton describes a world she knows well: amongst other things, she wrote a literary blog from 2005 to 2010, and is still a presence on the web through the articles she writes about literature and music.
Solange Bied-Charreton is 29, and lives and works in Paris. Enjoy is her first novel.
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