by Alphonse Boudard · France Loisirs / Laffont · tapa dura · ISBN 9782724294507
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«Mourir d'enfance» is an autobiographical novel by Alphonse Boudard, published by France Loisirs / Laffont in hardcover (252 pages, in French).
Alphonse Boudard evokes his childhood in this novel: little Alphonse grows up with peasants in the Loiret, while his mother, a charming but elusive woman, appears only sporadically in his life. The distance between them is never fully bridged, and the author recreates with irony and melancholy a vanished rural world, showing a more intimate side of his usual popular verve.
The work received the Grand Prix du Roman of the Académie française in 1995. The original edition, published by Robert Laffont, dates from that same year.
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.
