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A controversial, intelligent, and mordantly funny new novel from France''s most famous literary figure
Paris, 2022. François is bored. He''s a middle-aged lecturer at the Sorbonne and an expert on J. K. Huysmans, the famous nineteenth-century "decadent" author. But François''s own decadence is considerably smaller in scale. He sleeps with his students, eats microwave dinners, reads the classics, qu...
A controversial, intelligent, and mordantly funny new novel from France''s most famous literary figure
Paris, 2022. François is bored. He''s a middle-aged lecturer at the Sorbonne and an expert on J. K. Huysmans, the famous nineteenth-century "decadent" author. But François''s own decadence is considerably smaller in scale. He sleeps with his students, eats microwave dinners, reads the classics, qu...