The author of the novel "Subtle" and another masterpiece of the famous French writer David Foenkinos, "Memories", was recently introduced and published by the Shanghai Translation Publishing House. The book begins with the death of the grandfather and tells the feelings and stories of three generations of grandchildren, in which the author pays a lot of ink on the life of people who cannot decide their own lives after they are old, and the brush strokes are gentle.
"Memories" is David von Kinnos's novel masterpiece full of warm memories and autobiographical colors, a novel with warmth and humor in the bland, first published in 2011, and was shortlisted for the French Goncourt Literary Prize and the Fermina Literary Prize that year.
It is a family portrait full of happy memories, a life chronicle that carries the light and heavy of life, and the film of the same name is directed by Jean-Paul Luffer, starring "The Long Marriage Contract" and "Rose Life".
The film Memories, Les Souvenirs (2015), directed by Jean-Paul Louffer
"Memories are like the end, and perhaps the only thing that really belongs to us." The whole book starts from the death of the grandfather, with the love and parting of three generations of a family as the main line, telling the pain of life and the cruelty of time, telling the story, the power of intimate relationships not only comforts the present, but also nourishes the most precious memories, becoming the most important composition of life and the inheritance of a family. In addition to the main line, there is also a side line called "memory", which is interspersed with celebrity anecdotes and memories of fictional characters in the history of literature and art, echoing with the main line and adding to the reading fun.
David Foenkinos was a famous French writer, film director, playwright, and jazz student. He is adept at adding tension to approachable stories with a humorous tone and a warm gaze, and has been nominated for several important literary awards, and won the Renault Prize for Literature in France in 2014. His major works include "Subtle", "Memories", "Charlotte", "Rejection Library" and so on.
His masterpiece "Subtle" was introduced to China in 2014 and is loved by readers around the world Chinese. The book dominated the French Amazon book sales list for two years, setting a million sales miracle, and was shortlisted for four major French literary awards such as the Goncourt Literary Prize, the Fermina Prize, the Renault Prize and the Medici Prize, winning ten literary awards in one fell swoop.
Subtle Chinese cover
"With the publication of each work, David von Kinos is gradually growing into a true romance novelist and has established his own unique style: brisk but profound, full of fun and cunning, without lack of absurdity and humor... He is undoubtedly the most elegant writer of the new generation. The famous French journalist and writer Giesbel commented.
Excerpts from Memories:
We spent ten days together, like ruling an autonomous country, swimming in a sea of solipsism. We tell the story of the encounter between two people a hundred times every hour, tirelessly repeating how the two people were in love, as if we were mythical beings, in need of infinite interpretation... I asked her strangely:
"Do you like red or blue?"
"I like blue, I think."
"Do you prefer the light blue of the sky or the deep blue of the sea?"
"Hmmm... Sky. ”
"Do you prefer clouds in the sky or no clouds?"
"One or two, don't take too many."
"Your clouds, would you like them to have clear outlines?"
"No, I like clouds without personality."
"Your personalityless clouds, would you rather them stay in France or be blown away by the wind?"
"I want them to drift to Russia and meet a Russian cloud."
"Well, though, there are a lot of clouds in Russia, and don't you think that when our French cloud comes to the sea of Russian clouds, it's hard to encounter only one Russian cloud?"
"Don't think our cloud will fall in love at first sight. It must have been so, it was summer, and there was only one cloud in the sky, and it was that one. ”
(Excerpts published with the permission of the publishing house)