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Le Veilleur de Britannia

Le Veilleur de Britannia

Routier, Philippe

Paperback

Literary Fiction

ISBN10: 2234059941
ISBN13: 9782234059948
Publisher: Stock
Published: Nov 8 2021
Pages: 180
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.41 Width: 5.32 Depth: 8.47
Language: French

In his comfortable funeral chamber, Jean-Robert Carouge waits for the visit of his family and friends. He knows his wife will not come. She drew their conjugal life to a close long ago, and took the children with her. Christa and Jean have grown up, drifting away from their father - this soft, ineffective man as he describes himself. Yet he hopes they will come for a last good-bye.
Jean-Robert died suddenly, hit by a bus as he was leaving the Britannia hotel where he worked as a night guard. To kill time, he wrote novels that he then read to Sophie, the hotel receptionist.
Today, Jean-Robert is convinced that life is a farce, operated by a sick mind.
What is left of an ordinary existence? A few relationships and a handful of friends and the persistent memory of a languorous dance and a failed love story... Le veilleur du Britannia is a tender yet caustic tale, a humorous and inventive reflection on eternity that blends farce with pain in its account of its characters' banal and solitary lives.

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