by Christiane Rochefort · LGF/Le Livre de Poche · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253015741
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«Encore heureux qu'on va vers l'été» is the novel by Christiane Rochefort, published by LGF/Le Livre de Poche in paperback (219 pages, in French).
A high-school class in the suburbs listens for the third time to their young French teacher telling them they are a failure; then they all get up, leave the school and head for the countryside. The narrative follows these students during their escape, far from the classrooms.
The work was originally published in 1975 by Grasset; this edition belongs to the Le Livre de Poche collection (no. 4897).
For readers of French who want a short novel about adolescence, school and rebellion against authority.
Christiane Rochefort was a French feminist writer. She was born into a left-wing working class Parisian family; her father joined the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War. Rochefort worked as a journalist and spent fifteen years as a press attaché to the Cannes Film Festival before publishing her first novel, Le Repos du guerrier, in 1958. Like several of her later novels, Le Repos du guerrier was a bestseller; in 1962 it was adapted into a popular film directed by Roger Vadim and starring Brigitte Bardot. Her novels are divided between social realist satires set in present-day France and utopian or dystopian fantasies. She won the Prix Médicis in 1988. Rochefort's novels also have strong sexual elements.
