by Fouad Laroui · Julliard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782260016304
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«La fin tragique de Philomène Tralala» is the satirical novel by Fouad Laroui published by Julliard in paperback (142 pages, in French).
Philomène Tralala, a writer of Moroccan and Guinean origin, makes her way in the Parisian literary scene through her exuberant character and unfiltered sincerity. When she rejects the critic Gontran de Ville, he uses his influence to harm her. Laroui turns the conflict into a corrosive critique of the French cultural press.
Published by Julliard on February 6, 2003, the work falls under Literature and Fiction; the cover adds the subtitle «roman».
A work for readers of contemporary French fiction who enjoy a critical portrait of the cultural scene.
Fouad Laroui is a Moroccan economist and writer, born in Oujda, Morocco. After his studies at the Lycée Lyautey (Casablanca), he joined the prestigious École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, where he studied engineering. After working shortly for the Office Cherifien des Phosphates company in Khouribga (Morocco), he moved to the United Kingdom where he spent several years in Cambridge and York. Later he obtained a PhD in economics and moved to Amsterdam where he started his career as a writer. He has published about twenty books between novels, collections of short stories and essays and two collections of poetry in Dutch. He has won several literary prizes, amongst which the Prix Goncourt de la nouvelle, the Prix Jean-Giono and the Grande Médaille de la littérature de l'Académie française.
