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Happy are the happy : a novel

1 novel. 18 people. 18 lives. Infinite combinations: families and friends, colleagues and patients, lovers and mourners... but sometimes a crowd is the loneliest place to be. An exploration of dreams and disillusionment, love and infidelity...

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  • "Heureux les heureux"@it

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  • ""J'ai commencé à éprouver un sentiment, je veux dire un vrai, à ce moment-là. En sortant de la voiture, à Wandermines, sous la pluie. On ne parle pas assez de l'influence des lieux sur l'affect. Certaines nostalgies remontent à la surface sans prévenir. Les êtres changent de nature, comme dans les contes. Au milieu de cette confrérie en habits du dimanche, se pressant vers la mairie pour échapper aux gouttes, tenant le bras d'Odile pour l'aider sur le parvis glissant, j'ai éprouvé la catastrophe du sentiment." [Source : 4e de couv.]."
  • "1 novel. 18 people. 18 lives. Infinite combinations: families and friends, colleagues and patients, lovers and mourners... but sometimes a crowd is the loneliest place to be. An exploration of dreams and disillusionment, love and infidelity..."@en
  • "Ein Ehepaar im Supermarkt, Robert und Odile. Ihr an sich lächerlicher Streit an der Käsetheke eskaliert, die Nerven liegen blank, weil es hier um viel mehr als um die Wahl des richtigen Käses geht. Odile, Mutter zweier Kinder, wird sich schon bald einen Liebhaber nehmen, der sie dann seinerseits betrügt. Yasmina Reza beschreibt Paare, Einzelgänger und Familien in unverschämt komischen Alltagsszenen. Inmitten von gesellschaftlichem Ansehen und beruflichen Erfolgen werden ihre Träume vom Alltag zerrieben. Doch aufgeben? Niemals! Mit scharfer Beobachtungsgabe und schmerzhaft treffenden Dialogen entzündet die Autorin ein Feuerwerk aus klugem Witz, Humor und tiefen Einsichten in unsere heutige Gesellschaft."
  • "This citation of Borges resonates with every character in Yasmina Reza's novel, except that they are never so lucky. In fact, what happens to them is the exact opposite of what they crave. The twenty short chapters that make up this unusual book deal with both marital and extramarital vicissitudes, the elusiveness of intimacy, the fear of loneliness, and the desire to be loved or at least understood just once in our lives. The mixing of tones--cruelty and despair competing with humor and fantasy--and the quality of the monologues--taut and highly original--adds to the novel's virtuosity. This is without a doubt Reza's most accomplished work."
  • "Happy are the loved ones and the lovers and those who can do without love. Happy are the happy. --Jorge Luis Borges This citation of Borges resonates with every character in Yasmina Reza's novel, except that they are never so lucky. In fact, what happens to them is the exact opposite of what they crave. The twenty short chapters that make up this unusual book deal with both marital and extramarital vicissitudes, the elusiveness of intimacy, the fear of loneliness, and the desire to be loved or at least understood just once in our lives. The mixing of tones--cruelty and despair competing with humor and fantasy--and the quality of the monologues--taut and highly original--adds to the novel's virtuosity. This is without a doubt Reza's most accomplished work."
  • ""Happy are the loved ones and the lovers and those who can do without love. Happy are the happy." --Jorge Luis Borges This citation of Borges resonates with every character in Yasmina Reza's novel, except that they are never so lucky. In fact, what happens to them is the exact opposite of what they crave. The twenty short chapters that make up this unusual book deal with both marital and extramarital vicissitudes, the elusiveness of intimacy, the fear of loneliness, and the desire to be loved or at least understood just once in our lives. The mixing of tones--cruelty and despair competing with humor and fantasy--and the quality of the monologues--taut and highly original--adds to the novel's virtuosity. This is without a doubt Reza's most accomplished work."@en

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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Humorous fiction"@en
  • "Humorous fiction"
  • "Online-Publikation"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Erzählende Literatur: Gegenwartsliteratur ab 1945"

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  • "Felices los felices"@es
  • "Felices los felices"
  • "Felici i felici"
  • "Felici i felici"@it
  • "Heureux les heureux : roman"
  • "Glücklich die Glücklichen : Roman"
  • "Gelukkig de gelukkigen"
  • "Glücklich die Glücklichen"
  • "Feliços els feliços"
  • "Heureux le heureux"
  • "Haengbokhaesŏ haengbokhan saramdŭl = Heureux les heureux"
  • "Happy Are the Happy"
  • "Heureux les heureux"
  • "Heureux les heureux : [roman]"
  • "Happy are the happy : a novel"@en
  • "Glücklich die Glücklichen Roman"
  • "행복해서 행복한 사람들 = Heureux les heureux"
  • "Happy are the happy"
  • "Happy are the happy"@en

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