L'éternel fiancé

What does a life look like? For the narrator, to a declaration of love between two four-year-old children during a Christmas concert. Or meeting them in the middle of winter, thirty years later, in a street in Paris. We could also evoke an acrobatic rock'n'roll, the death of a mother, a contemporary art exhibition, a wedding for fun, a summer day in the countryside or the secret life of a gigolo. These scenes - and many others besides - are the images in which are inscribed the moments of an existence which, without them, would be irrevocably doomed to oblivion. Because everything that is not written disappears. Ward off oblivion: such appears to us one of the meanings of this novel animated by an extraordinary vitality, alternating falls and rebounds, collapses and triumphs, melancholy and exaltation.