by Catherine Cusset · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 3260050867405
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«Confessions d'une radine» is the novel by Catherine Cusset published by Folio in paperback, in French.
The narrator confesses to being stingy and admits she would like not to be; the first victim is herself. She believes that living means spending, enjoying and giving without counting, but her first impulse is to calculate everything. She wonders if she also writes out of stinginess, so as not to lose anything, to recycle it and turn her past into a treasure of sensations and pains.
The work originally appeared at Éditions de Fallois in 2004; this Folio edition is from 2011, complete text, and the cover reproduces a painting by Claire Bretécher.
For readers of French fiction interested in a first-person, self-critical account about money and consumption.
Catherine Cusset is a best-selling French novelist and the author of Life of David Hockney: A Novel, The Story of Jane, and 12 other novels published by Éditions Gallimard between 1990 and 2018. Some of her novels are described as autofiction, a French literary movement that is a hybrid of fiction and autobiography. Others are more romantic, but all share some recurring themes: the family, desire, and cultural conflicts between France and America. She stands out from her contemporaries with a direct, incisive, visual form of writing, marked by the influence of Anglo-Saxon novelists.
