by Catherine Cusset · Gallimard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782072688201
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«L'autre qu'on adorait» is the novel by Catherine Cusset, published by Gallimard in 2016 in paperback (290 pages, in French).
The narrative focuses on the memory of Thomas, a man of overflowing vitality who was the narrator's lover and later close friend, and who died at thirty-nine in the United States. Catherine Cusset reconstructs Thomas's story from memory and portrays with empathy his contradictions, the fragility of his bonds, and the mark he leaves on those who loved him.
It is Catherine Cusset's twelfth novel. The edition belongs to Gallimard's nrf imprint and is dated 2016.
Aimed at readers of contemporary French fiction interested in psychological portraits, complex relationships, and narratives built from memory.
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.
