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Jean Echenoz
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Jean Echenoz
Né le 26 décembre 1947 à Orange dans un milieu familial favorisé, Jean Echenoz suit des études de sociologie et de génie civil dans différentes villes de province avant de décider de s'installer à Paris en 1970. Il collabore quelque temps à l'Humanité et à l'AFP avant de commencer à écrire. Son premier roman "Le méridien de Greenwich" paraît aux Editions de Minuit en 1979. Depuis il est resté fidèle à la maison créée par Jérôme Lindon ; il rédige d'ailleurs un petit opuscule après la disparition de ce dernier en 2001. Y sont notamment publiés "LEquipée malaise" (1987), "Lac" (1989) "Nous trois" (1992), "Les grandes blondes" (1995), "Au piano" (2003), ou "Des éclairs" (2010), mais aussi "Cherokee" (1983) récompensé par le Prix Fémina, et "Je m'en vais" pour lequel il reçoit le Prix Goncourt en 1999.
Né le 26 décembre 1947 à Orange dans un milieu familial favorisé, Jean Echenoz suit des études de sociologie et de génie civil dans différentes villes de province avant de décider de s'installer à Paris en 1970. Il collabore quelque temps à l'Humanité et à l'AFP avant de commencer à écrire. Son premier roman "Le méridien de Greenwich" paraît aux Editions de Minuit en 1979. Depuis il est resté fidèle à la maison créée par Jérôme Lindon ; il rédige d'ailleurs un petit opuscule après la disparition de ce dernier en 2001. Y sont notamment publiés "LEquipée malaise" (1987), "Lac" (1989) "Nous trois" (1992), "Les grandes blondes" (1995), "Au piano" (2003), ou "Des éclairs" (2010), mais aussi "Cherokee" (1983) récompensé par le Prix Fémina, et "Je m'en vais" pour lequel il reçoit le Prix Goncourt en 1999.

Dernière sortie
Command Performance
A thrilling, inventive, playful, and unorthodox detective and caper novel, the latest work by a French master."Fans of Jean-Patrick Manchette's deadpan irony will appreciate Command Performance, Echenoz's vibrant, playful homage to the hard-boiled genre, which plays like The Big Lebowski on the Seine." -Publishers WeeklyGerard Fulmard is a loser. A disgraced former flight attendant, he attempts the métier of private detective, with spectacularly disastrous results, then begins working for an obscure political groupuscule beset by an outsized share of infighting and backroom maneuvering.
At first employed as an enforcer, Fulmard is then co-opted by one of the party's less savory factions, sinking in deeper and deeper until he finds himself the reluctant assassin of the party's own leader-and that's when things really start going downhill. Meanwhile, projectiles crash down from the sky, corpses turn up in perfect health, main characters suffer sudden death, and nothing is as it seems.
In Command Performance, Jean Echenoz, one of France's most respected contemporary writers, toys with the tropes of genre fiction and high literature, displaying the twists of plot and turns of phrase that have become his signature, and that have made him, in the words of The Washington Post, "the most distinctive voice of his generation and the master magician of the contemporary French novel."
At first employed as an enforcer, Fulmard is then co-opted by one of the party's less savory factions, sinking in deeper and deeper until he finds himself the reluctant assassin of the party's own leader-and that's when things really start going downhill. Meanwhile, projectiles crash down from the sky, corpses turn up in perfect health, main characters suffer sudden death, and nothing is as it seems.
In Command Performance, Jean Echenoz, one of France's most respected contemporary writers, toys with the tropes of genre fiction and high literature, displaying the twists of plot and turns of phrase that have become his signature, and that have made him, in the words of The Washington Post, "the most distinctive voice of his generation and the master magician of the contemporary French novel."
A thrilling, inventive, playful, and unorthodox detective and caper novel, the latest work by a French master."Fans of Jean-Patrick Manchette's deadpan irony will appreciate Command Performance, Echenoz's vibrant, playful homage to the hard-boiled genre, which plays like The Big Lebowski on the Seine." -Publishers WeeklyGerard Fulmard is a loser. A disgraced former flight attendant, he attempts the métier of private detective, with spectacularly disastrous results, then begins working for an obscure political groupuscule beset by an outsized share of infighting and backroom maneuvering.
At first employed as an enforcer, Fulmard is then co-opted by one of the party's less savory factions, sinking in deeper and deeper until he finds himself the reluctant assassin of the party's own leader-and that's when things really start going downhill. Meanwhile, projectiles crash down from the sky, corpses turn up in perfect health, main characters suffer sudden death, and nothing is as it seems.
In Command Performance, Jean Echenoz, one of France's most respected contemporary writers, toys with the tropes of genre fiction and high literature, displaying the twists of plot and turns of phrase that have become his signature, and that have made him, in the words of The Washington Post, "the most distinctive voice of his generation and the master magician of the contemporary French novel."
At first employed as an enforcer, Fulmard is then co-opted by one of the party's less savory factions, sinking in deeper and deeper until he finds himself the reluctant assassin of the party's own leader-and that's when things really start going downhill. Meanwhile, projectiles crash down from the sky, corpses turn up in perfect health, main characters suffer sudden death, and nothing is as it seems.
In Command Performance, Jean Echenoz, one of France's most respected contemporary writers, toys with the tropes of genre fiction and high literature, displaying the twists of plot and turns of phrase that have become his signature, and that have made him, in the words of The Washington Post, "the most distinctive voice of his generation and the master magician of the contemporary French novel."
Les livres de Jean Echenoz

4/5
19,00 €

4/5
13,99 €
Prix Goncourt

4/5
3.7/5
Profil - Echenoz (Jean) : Je m'en vais. analyse littéraire de l'oeuvre
Christine Jérusalem, Jean Echenoz
E-book
4,49 €

2/5
8,99 €

2/5
9,00 €

3.5/5
8,49 €

3/5
3.8/5
8,49 €

3/5
3.8/5
8,90 €