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François Bégaudeau |
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J’ai voulu raconter l’amour tel qu’il est vécu la plupart du temps par la plupart des gens : sans crise ni événement. Au gré de la vie qui passe, des printemps qui reviennent et repartent. Dans la mélancolie des choses. Il est nulle part et partout, il est dans le temps même.
Les Moreau vont vivre cinquante ans côte à côte, en compagnie l’un de l’autre. C’est le bon mot : elle est sa compagne, il est son compagnon. Seule la mort les séparera, et encore ce n’est pas sûr.
F. B.
L’Amour is a very short novel on the destiny of Jeanne and Jacques Moreau, at first sight, an ordinary couple, who never left the mid-sized city in Western France, where in the early 1970s they experienced their first stirrings of emotion. Fifty years of companionship told as true to their daily life as possible, closely following their changing bodies, behaviours, objects, dashed hopes, and shared happiness.
Like his characters François Bégaudeau was born in Vendée, in 1971, and offers the gentle, genuine, undiluted story of the relationship of Jeanne and Jacques in a single paragraph, devoid of chapters. In this pared-down narrative, he pays tribute to “simple hearts” and to this part of France which fashioned them, portraying their seamless bliss, when “love takes patience”, a profane mantra which brings these two characters very close to home.
>> L'amour has been published in German (Piper), Spanish (Irradiador), Dutch (Standaard) and soon in Italian (Salani) and Hebrew (Penn Publishing). |
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