Il Babbo

von Ivan Macaux

224 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

A week travelling the roads of France between the Var region and Paris, following in the tracks of a clapped out old car on its last legs.Il Babbo is driving. His son, in the passenger seat, peers into the wing mirror watching memories spooling past - memories of childhood, of escapades and poker games played by his father who has such a complex and spectacular life story. Who exactly is this Babbo, this ebullient interloper? A certifiable idealist or a nine-to-five crook? And who is the narrator really? More than an adolescent but not yet a man. This journey spent alone together is a rare gift. Father and son watch each other, eye each other, try to find each other, but never quite succeed. As they trundle along the B-roads, the author shows us the full weight of their silences and of what is left unsaid, elliptically revealing the story of this French family that he wants to explore. In the course of their travels they come across Africa and Barbara, the cartoon character Musclor and Stephan Zweig, Soviet generals as performed by Jacques Tati, Lee Harvey Oswald and pornography... Ivan Macaux was born in 1984. A former film critic, he is now a television reporter. Il Babbo is his first novel.

• Themen: Belletristik Allgemein, nicht nach Genre
• ISBN: 9782234074163
• Sprache: Französisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 08.11.2021
• Größe: 215 x 135 mm
• Verlag: Editions Stock