by Jonathan Coe · Folio · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070308460
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«La Femme de hasard» is the novel by Jonathan Coe published by Folio in paperback (192 pages, in French).
Maria, a young woman of modest origins near Birmingham, shows indifference to exams, gossip, and Ronny's love. Only her cat, content in its indifference, makes her think there might be a form of happiness. The novel recounts her disappointments and criticizes the institutions and forms of happiness accepted by Western society.
Jonathan Coe's first novel, originally published in English as The Accidental Woman in 1987; this French edition from Folio is from 2007.
For readers of contemporary British fiction and for those wanting to discover Jonathan Coe's first novel.
Jonathan Coe is an English novelist and writer. His work has an underlying preoccupation with political issues, although this serious engagement is often expressed comically in the form of satire. For example, What a Carve Up! (1994) reworks the plot of an old 1960s spoof horror film of the same name. It is set within the "carve up" of the UK's resources that was carried out by Margaret Thatcher's Conservative governments of the 1980s.
