by Muriel Barbery · Seix Barral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432228636
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«Rapsodia Gourmet» is the first novel by French writer Muriel Barbery, published by Seix Barral in 2010 in the Biblioteca Formentor collection, in paperback (192 pages, in Spanish).
In the heart of Paris, Pierre Arthens, the world's most celebrated food critic, is dying. As he reviews the memories that have marked his life, his gustatory memory evokes the simple pleasures of childhood and a varied geography of culinary delights. Alongside his voice, family, neighbors, lovers, protégés and even his cat trace a choral portrait of the influential and feared Monsieur Arthens.
Novel belonging to the «7 rue de Grenelle» series (volume 1). Originally published in French as «Une gourmandise» and translated by Isabel González-Gallarza.
For readers of contemporary European fiction who appreciate stories about memory, gastronomy and the human condition, in the style of the author of «La elegancia del erizo».
Muriel Barbery is a French novelist and philosophy teacher. Her 2006 novel The Elegance of the Hedgehog quickly sold more than a million copies in several countries.
