by Erik Orsenna · Stock · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782234060586
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«Et si on dansait ? : éloge de la ponctuation» is the novel by Erik Orsenna, published by Stock in paperback (128 pages, in French).
Jeanne, now sixteen, sells school assignments to students on the island and ends up writing speeches for politicians. There she discovers the importance of punctuation and, with her brother Tom, learns music and rhythm to bring her texts to life, while experiencing her first crush. A celebration of punctuation as an expression of feelings.
Fourth installment of the grammatical adventures of Jeanne and her brother Tom; original publication in 2009.
For young readers and students of French; has been used as school reading.
Érik Orsenna is the pen-name of Érik Arnoult a French politician and novelist. After studying philosophy and political science at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris, Orsenna specialized in economics at the London School of Economics. He was a close collaborator of François Mitterrand and held several government positions in the 1980s and 1990s. He is a member of the Conseil d'État, having been appointed in 1985. He was elected to the Académie Française on 28 May 1998. He won the 1990 International Nonino Prize in Italy. For Voyage au pays du coton he received the second prize of the Lettre Ulysses Award in 2006.
