by Remo Forlani · Folio · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070401178
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«La Déglingue» is the autobiographical novel by Remo Forlani, published in paperback by Folio (368 pages, in French).
Set in occupied Paris, the novel follows an Italian family settled near the Gare de Lyon after the father's bankruptcy. Between that area and the Palais-Royal parade a mother broken by life's blows, a drinking, provocative father, and a picturesque neighborhood, in a tragicomedy with mordant humor.
It is Remo Forlani's first fully autobiographical novel. French edition published on November 15, 1996.
Recommended for readers of European autobiographical fiction and for those seeking bittersweet family portraits in France during World War II.
Remo Forlani (1927–2009) was a French writer and screenwriter born in Paris to a French mother and an Italian immigrant father.
