by Alphonse Boudard · Table Ronde · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782724218992
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«Le café du pauvre» is the novel by Alphonse Boudard, published by Table Ronde in paperback (277 pages, in French).
Paris, 1946: coffee is scarce and sells at high prices on the black market, and a penniless ex-serviceman scrapes by with odd jobs. The «café du pauvre» of the title alludes to the only affordable diversion, romantic encounters with women of different temperaments. Boudard portrays the city's reconstruction with humor and nostalgia.
The work's subtitle is «roman», a French term indicating that it is a novel.
For readers of French fiction and literary portraits of postwar Paris.
Alphonse Boudard was a French novelist and playwright. He won the 1977 Prix Renaudot for Les Combattants du petit bonheur. Boudard's 1995 novel Dying childhood was awarded and recognised by the French Academy with a Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française.
