by Howard Buten · Seuil · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782020067362
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«Le Coeur sous le rouleau compresseur» is Howard Buten's psychological love novel, published by Seuil in paperback (277 pages, in French).
Gil is a teenager who, after spending a year institutionalized in a hospital due to adults' incomprehension, only thinks about finding Jessica, the young woman he loves. His search, taken to the limit, becomes a story about the power of desire and the fragility of the mind.
Published in 1984. Translated from English by Jean-Pierre Carasso. Edition from the Virgule/Points collection at Seuil.
The work is aimed at readers of romantic and psychological fiction, as well as those already familiar with Howard Buten's narrative.
Howard Buten was an American author living in France. He was also a psychologist, a clown, and a violin player. Buten was the author of five novels, the first of which, entitled When I Was Five I Killed Myself, was published in 1981 and turned into a film under its French title Quand j'avais cinq ans je m'ai tué in 1994.
