La vie ripolin

Synopsis of La vie ripolin

«La vie ripolin» is the autobiographical novel by Jean Vautrin, published by Mazarine in 1986 (241 pages, in French).

Charlie tries to forget by writing the true account of his life, marked by a sick son and a father who never knew how to love him. He wants to repaint life with naive colors, but the keys lie in a past that spans the Occupation, Algeria and the 1950s, where tragedy mingles with the burlesque.

Part of the Roman Mazarine series. French paperback edition, 241 pages, cover with the word 'roman'.

For readers of French literary fiction interested in historical memory and the boundary between autobiography, dream and reality.