by Jean-Denis Bredin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070707553
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«L'absence» is the novel by Jean-Denis Bredin, published by Gallimard in 1986 in paperback (159 pages, in French).
Claude Hartmann arrives in Venice with his dying mother; they live together for ten days, she dies, and he disappears. The novel traces that absence through the voices of those who knew him, delving into the memory, grief, and sensitivity of a man who never felt protected.
The cover indicates that the work belongs to Gallimard's NRF collection.
For readers of French fiction interested in stories about memory, grief, and absence.
Jean-Denis Bredin was a French attorney and founding partner of the firm Bredin Prat. He was widely admired as an author-commentator, both for his novels and for his non-fiction works, with a particular focus on recent and contemporary history. On 15 June 1989, he was elected to membership of the Académie Française, becoming the twentieth occupant of seat 3, which had been vacated through the death of Marguerite Yourcenar. His daughter, Frédérique Bredin, served between 2013 and 2019 as President of the French National Center of Cinematography and the moving image.
