by Erik Orsenna · Seuil · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782020239219
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«L'Exposition coloniale» is the novel by Erik Orsenna, published by Seuil in paperback (618 pages, in French).
The novel follows Gabriel, who ends up embodying the colonial dream of his grandmother Marguerite as he moves between his childhood in Levallois and his loves for Ann and Clara. With the Paris Colonial Exhibition as a backdrop, the narrative addresses with irony and a picaresque tone the colonial imaginary, identity, and the weight of family inheritance.
Winner of the Prix Goncourt and the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens in 1988, originally published that year. This copy belongs to the Points collection (no. P30).
For readers of contemporary French fiction interested in works with historical and colonial backgrounds and in family stories.
Érik Orsenna is the pen-name of Érik Arnoult a French politician and novelist. After studying philosophy and political science at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris, Orsenna specialized in economics at the London School of Economics. He was a close collaborator of François Mitterrand and held several government positions in the 1980s and 1990s. He is a member of the Conseil d'État, having been appointed in 1985. He was elected to the Académie Française on 28 May 1998. He won the 1990 International Nonino Prize in Italy. For Voyage au pays du coton he received the second prize of the Lettre Ulysses Award in 2006.
