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L'Angle mort

“The Blind Spot” (title translated by AI)

Jean-François Chassay (born 1959)

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A family story lost in a maze of often distorting mirrors. On 19 January 2001, Stéphane, Camille and Dominique speak, one on the telephone, another to a woman listening, the third to himself. Their monologues wander through architecture, cooking, neurology and history, but also a passion for childhood and for the dead, aunts and great-aunts, fathers, mothers and passing lovers. Nothing in these seemingly anecdotal conversations is gratuitous: in telling the stories of their lives, the three are trying not to lose the thread, because losing it would mean going mad.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Length
326 pages in the original
Genres
Family (assigned by AI)
First published
2002 by Boréal
Author's age
43 when first published
ISBN

9782764601877 (original)

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