""Mammals" is a witty anatomization of modern life. Caustic, comic, and unflinchingly honest, "Mammals" is a cruel but beautiful tale of love, solitude, alcoholism, family, and unemployment. This fictional memoir of a glorious loser recounts the life of the Uncle, an unhappy Parisian bachelor whose only true loves were a Polish girl and a divorcee."@en
""Love. Solitude. Alcohol. Family. Unemployment. Mammals tells the story of "the uncle," a sarcastic, middle-aged Parisian bachelor and drunk. He fails desultorily in several professions--a new media company during the boom, a defense ministry museum run by a lecherous ex-quartermaster--and winds up a teacher in a secondary school, surrounded by neurotic women. He tries out therapist after therapist and doesn't get the joke. He has many reasons to be anxious, family life most of all--especially now that he's living at home again. He coins proverbs for living for living with lowered expectations and observes the habits of his pathological parents, the mammals of the title. Piecing together a portrait of a modern Everyman, Mammals is a caustic, comic, unflinching bestiary of modern banality."--Publisher's website."
"Ce roman autobiographique raconte l'amour, la solitude, l'alcoolisme, la famille, le chômage. Il constitue les mémoires d'un célibataire malheureux, sarcastique mais sensible, prof dans un lycée, qui accumule les échecs sentimentaux et professionnels."