In his book A man alone, Frédéric Beigbeder recounts the life of his father, “the pope of headhunters in France.” A world. And a thousand new pieces of information.
In his bestselling book 99 Francs – published in 2000 – the novelist Frédéric Beigbeder wrote a twisting satire of the world of advertising and its many failings. In A Single Man, which is being published these days by Grasset, he tells the story of his father, Jean-Michel Beigbeder, who died in January 2023. In the 1950s, he was one of the first headhunters and designated like the pope of the profession in France.
A top secret activity
Beyond the novel, this new book is comparable to 99 Francs for this reason: the author returns, 25 years later, to satire on the business world. More than a hundred pages are devoted to this profession which has forever changed the modern world of work, with extensive documentation, analyses, and exclusive anecdotes about the business… and behind the scenes of the appointments of senior executives. “It’s a universe about which there are very few books… if at all, slides Frédéric Beigbeder Figaro. Even to my brother Charles and me, our father…
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