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In “La déinvolture est une bien belle chose”, the novelist takes a tour of France and becomes fascinated by a group of girls and boys who are regulars at the Café Moineau in Paris in the 1950s.
Here is Philippe Jaenada again, in Casualness is a beautiful thing.driving a rental car. Instead of going around in circles in his apartment in Paris, he decides to take a tour of France. Starting and finishing point: Dunkirk. He will drive along the coast thinking of Jean Rolin and Patrick Deville, remember the early days with Anne-Catherine, his wife, in Veules-les-Roses (Seine-Maritime), dine at the restaurant of the Hotel la Plage de Monsieur Hulot in Saint-Marc-sur-Mer (Loire-Atlantique) where the swing door no longer exists, start smoking again in Port-Vendres (Pyrénées-Orientales) which is the town of his first bar, when he was a little boy. He passes through Toulon, through Menton. The whole of France is not by the sea, Jaenada goes back to Briançon, Evian, falls in the middle of the medieval carnival in Sedan. At the end, he will have lived three weeks without a telephone and driven “five thousand three hundred and forty-two kilometers. I would have said more.”
Stubborn Bloodhound
With the Internet, you can work anywhere. Every evening, the author checks his email like a fisherman checks his nets. As his investigations progress (Sulak, the Little Female,
