by Erik Orsenna · LGF/Le Livre de Poche · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253126102
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«La Chanson de Charles Quint» is the French novel by Erik Orsenna, published by Le Livre de Poche in paperback (184 pages, in French).
The story focuses on two brothers living in the same city, each on one bank of the river. The elder, after numerous romantic experiences, discovers he has never truly loved; the younger, who only knew one love in his youth, ends up marrying that person thirty years later.
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.
