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.
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'Academie Francaise 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
FULL REVIEWS
‘Zeller has found the falsely self-assured voice for the Age of Ingratitude”
Le Point
“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”
Muze
‘Florian Zeller can no longer be called a promising ‘young’ author - he has a brillance that lasts”
Le Point
