History, Literature and Life

With these three terms may be defined this autobiographical novel, written in the form of an "interview-river" as the author says, ie that surprisingly the 300 pages of the books follow one another without discontinuities and with no chapter.

Jean d'Ormesson is a sad man I believe deeply and for a long time when I saw him make joyful intellectual on TV. Sad is not a criticism, many great writers are unhappy men and Jean d'Ormesson, we understand the fact, never really admit. The oxymoron of this title "A tearful celebration" we do understand ...

Moreover the book is exciting with cultural reflections keys that do not leave indifferent.