by Philippe Forest · Grasset & Fasquelle · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782246812074
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«Une fatalité de bonheur» is the literary essay by Philippe Forest, published by Grasset & Fasquelle in paperback (176 pages, in French).
Philippe Forest takes twenty-six words from Rimbaud's poetry, one for each letter of the alphabet, and turns them into a starting point for a personal reading of his life. He interprets the poet's verses as if they concerned him; the succession of glosses composes a literary self-portrait that goes from Deuil to Zanzibar.
The title belongs to Grasset's «Vingt-Six» collection; the paperback edition was published in 2016.
For readers interested in Arthur Rimbaud and contemporary French literature, with a taste for essays of an autobiographical tone.
Philippe Forest is a French author and professor of literature. He has been awarded the First Novel Prix Femina (1997) and the Prix Décembre (2004), and his works have been translated into English, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese. He has taught at several Universities, including Cambridge, Edinburgh, and Saint-Andrews, and the University of Nantes.
