With the devastating humor that we know of him (he worked for a long time alongside Pierre Desproges to produce on television “The Necessary Minute of Monsieur Cyclopède”) and an alert pen despite the weight of the years, Jean-Louis Fournier does not never ceases to amaze us. In his latest book “There is still light under my hat”, the author takes us into a jubilant celebration of old age and sweeps away the clichés on the subject to better embrace all the possibilities available to him.
Corrosive humor…
Rather than lamenting the decline of the body, it highlights the multiple ways of flourishing and reinventing oneself over the years. His sparkling story makes you want to age with indulgence and open yourself up to all possibilities. It must be said that Fournier has the art of synthesis and that of titraille. Let us judge by the names of the short chapters which punctuate his story, each funnier (and iconoclastic) than the others: “Are old people recyclable? “, “old people smell old and mothballs” or even “Man begins his life in a youpala, he ends it in a walker”. Refusing with contagious optimism to consider himself “old”, the octogenarian mischievously shares his own experience of passing time and deepening wrinkles. He also pays tribute to the elderly people who enriched his life: “Before he passes away for good, I would like to thank (…)
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