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One night in a Parisian nightclub and the aftermath of a marriage provide the stories for these two novels by Frederic Beigbeder, award-winning author of 'Windows on the World'. Both novels, translated into English for the first time here, are narrated by Marc Marronier, a shallow, superficial, rich Parisian who works as an advertising executive, but concentrates much of his energy on frequenting the demimonde of Parisian clubs and bars. It's a world Beigbeder is all too familiar with, and his caustic observations are all the more accurate for it. In 'Holiday in a Coma', Marc Marronier is invited by his old friend, an American DJ, to the opening of a new nightclub called The Shitter (a satirical take on the famous Paris nightclub, Les Bains Douche). Taking place over a single unforgettable night, the novel documents everything from the pit-bull bouncer on the door, to the drugs, cocktails and wannabes who frequent the club. Marc has set his sights on seducing a catwak model -- any one will do -- and is trying to keep a clear head while all around are paying good money to lose theirs. A catalogue of degeneracy, drugs, sex and decibels, 'Holiday in a Coma' is written with a fury and passion that reflect the author's own relationship with a world and he both loves and loathes. In 'Love Lasts Three Years', our hero Marc has just been divorced and -- shallow opportunist that he is -- has decided to write a book about it. He has a theory that love lasts no more than three years, and here -- while recounting the highs and lows of his marriage and taking us through brash nightclubs, vainglorious offices and soulless designer apartments -- he brings to bear the theoretical and the empirical to prove his point. Both frightening and funny, the book reads like a diary: sometimes tender and real, sometimes fantastical and cruel, peppered with Beigbeder's acerbic one-liners and trademark wit. [via]
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Certains territoires du cervelet et d'autres champs de la conscience sont restés inexplorés avant les années quatre-vingt et la découverte d'une nouvelle drogue, la MDMA, plus connue sous le nom d'ecstasy. Drogue dure, cette "pilule de l'amour" à effet rapide "avec une montée et une descente comme dans les montagnes russes" rend la vie des personnages de ce recueil de nouvelles parfois difficile : jouissive avant d'être sombre, heureuse avant d'être déprimante. On s'aime, on se déchire, on fait des choses folles comme voir le monde au bord du gouffre, oublier ses inhibitions et ses tabous... et puis... passer les bornes. Oui sans doute, sans doute, car voilà tout le talent de Beigbeder. Avec beaucoup d'humour et d'invention, il nous propose une réflexion sur l'amour et sur la folie, deux concepts aux multiples ramifications. Et avec toute l'affection dont il est capable, il partage le "trip" de ses personnages, nous offrant la possibilité d'hésiter : est-ce l'auteur qui écrit sous ecstasy ou le récit de la vie d'individus en plein envol ? Peut-être bien les deux, ce qui ne gâche en rien le plaisir de la lecture. --Hector Chavez [via]
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