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Bezig met laden... Les Enfants Tristes (editie 1951)door Roger Nimier (Auteur)
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Onderdeel van de uitgeversreeks(en)Gallimard, Folio (1469)
Olivier Malentraide est un enfant monté contre sa famille. Il trouve sa mère trop jeune, son beau-père trop libéral, ses cousines trop débauchées. Il essaie de déclencher des catastrophes, mais réussit tout juste à ce que sa mère prenne un amant. Dans la deuxième partie, nous retrouvons un Olivier différent. Sans qu'on sache trop bien ce qu'il a fait pendant la guerre, il a pris un drôle de genre. Ce n'est pas le cynisme, c'est une sorte de sécheresse passionnée. Il fait des bêtises. La troisième partie le met en contact avec deux petites filles de l'aristocratie assez étranges : Dominique et Catherine. Entre-temps, Olivier est devenu écrivain, et il a du succès. Dominique aime ce succès, et Catherine aime Dominique. C'est pourtant Catherine qu'Olivier épousera. Mais la conclusion ne sera pas gaie pour autant. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Les Enfants Tristes was published in 1951 and that is why it got onto my reading list. It tells the story of Olivier Malentrade a young man whose family are well-to-do members of the petite bourgeoisie. M le Barsac has made money from his investments during the second world war war and Olivier is the son of his first wife. Olivier does not quite fit into the business world of le Barsac and does not approve of the modern more liberated ways of the females in Le Barsac's family. The novel is in three parts and the first part takes place during the war where we meet the family who are largely unaffected by the war and tells the story about their relationships particularly Raoul; Oliviers half brother. Raoul is an intellectual who falls in love with the flirtatious Tessa whose family are lower down the social scale, but her outward going character and her pretty looks charms M le Barsac and he approves of Raoul marrying her. The second part tells the story of Tessa who manages to have a number of affairs to escape from the more conventional Raoul, one of her affairs is with Olivier Malentrade who is seduced by a pretty woman who is far more experienced than him and has difficulties when the affair is over. In the third part two younger women Dominique and Catherine enter in the circle of friends around Olivier, who is still clumsy around women. He has become a successful author and playwright, but his world is turned upside down by the two women.
It is the story of a man who feels out of step with his family and who is not at all assured in his relations with women. Roger Nimier builds his characters at some length, but the book comes alive in their conversations, which can take some unconventional twists and turns, especially when Olivier and Raoul are involved because of their uncertainty in relationships with women. Nimier's females are more free than the men, and more knowing in their dealings with the opposite sex, but are intellectually their inferiors. The background of Parisian life for well connected people is sketched adequately, but Nimier is mainly concerned with explaining why and how his characters act out their lives. I found his characters too far removed from the story for my liking a bit like moths fluttering around a light in danger of getting burnt. I am not encouraged to search out other books by Nimier and rate this as three stars. ( )