by Alphonse Boudard · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782710301523
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«La Cerise» is the novel by Alphonse Boudard, published by La Table Ronde in paperback (434 pages, in French).
The narrator, a man pursued by misfortune, wanders through a working-class Paris where bad luck accompanies him like an inseparable lover he calls «la cerise». Among policemen, debts and gambling dens, his story becomes an ironic and unsparing confession about an existence halfway between laughter and disenchantment.
Originally published in 1961, this novel won the Prix Sainte-Beuve; the paperback edition from La Table Ronde appeared in 1984.
For readers of 20th-century French fiction who appreciate black humor and portraits of marginal Paris.
Alphonse Boudard was a French novelist and playwright. He won the 1977 Prix Renaudot for Les Combattants du petit bonheur. Boudard's 1995 novel Dying childhood was awarded and recognised by the French Academy with a Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française.
