“Without a doubt his best book”
Le Monde
"An endearing character and tone of voice to tell of the journey from childhood towards becoming an adult”
"An endearing character and tone of voice to tell of the journey from childhood towards becoming an adult”
Muze
"Florian Zeller can no longer be called a promising ‘young’ author - he has a brillance that lasts"
Le Point
"Florian Zeller can no longer be called a promising ‘young’ author - he has a brillance that lasts"
Le Point
"This fourth novel by an award-winning French writer is a tour de force of literary ventriloquism. Julien is as unreliable a narrator as we are likely to come across, telling as fact things he contradicts, regaling us with fantasies in which, a few pages later, he has come to believe. His sufferings are as epic as his ambitions (...) Julien never quite sacrifices our sympathies and, thanks in part to Christopher Moncrieff's stylish, street-smart translation, the reader is completely caught up in his adolescent longings, his sense of boundless possibility and danger, and his desperate need to construct a place for himself in the world'
C J SCHULER The Independent
ABOUT THE BOOK
Julien Parme is fourteen years old and disillusioned. But tonight his love for Mathilde will inspire his destiny and form the beginning of his adult identity−that of a great living author. He is convinced of having seduced his French teacher, escapes the parental growls and hangs out with Marco to be cool, he muses on the meaning of life and finds it intolerable that he should be so undermined by his family. Don't they know he's a great writer? In fact he'll even start writing tomorrow−that'll show them.
Julien’s feelings of abandonment, solitude, ambition, vanity and glory capture the struggle to conquer a place for oneself in the world... Here is his adolescence, his rite of passage.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FLORIAN ZELLER (born in 1979) is the prolific author of critically acclaimed novels and plays, the recipient of numerous literary awards, a university lecturer at the prestigious 'Sciences-Po' in Paris, and a journalist for Paris Match, Vogue, Vol de Nuit ... Julien Parme is his fourth novel. His third novel The Fascination of Evil received the Prix Interallie, he was awarded the Prix Jeune Theatre de l'Académie Française for his plays as well as the Hachette Foundation Literary Prize and the New Writer Award from the Prince Pierre of Monaco Foundation for his first novel Neiges Artificielles.
Florian Zeller lives and works in Paris.
Translated from the French by Christopher Moncrieff
ISBN 978 1 901285 97 0
256pp
