by Catherine Cusset · GALLIMARD · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070760916
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«La Haine de la famille» is the novel by Catherine Cusset, published by Gallimard in paperback (223 pages, in French).
The novel sets up a family game: assign a color to each relative's most irritating flaw and show them a card when they commit it. The father who shouts over a lost cloth gets a green one; the mother who laments, a red one; the sister, a yellow one; the brother, a gray one. The narrator keeps a blue card for his own tantrums.
Published in 2001, it is part of Gallimard's Blanche collection; the cover reads «roman».
For readers of literary fiction in French who enjoy an ironic portrait of family relationships.
Catherine Cusset is a best-selling French novelist and the author of Life of David Hockney: A Novel, The Story of Jane, and 12 other novels published by Éditions Gallimard between 1990 and 2018. Some of her novels are described as autofiction, a French literary movement that is a hybrid of fiction and autobiography. Others are more romantic, but all share some recurring themes: the family, desire, and cultural conflicts between France and America. She stands out from her contemporaries with a direct, incisive, visual form of writing, marked by the influence of Anglo-Saxon novelists.
