L’insouciance
Milieu des années 70. Récemment arrivé à Nice, le narrateur de vingt-trois ans se laisse vivre au gré des rencontres, sans se préoccuper de l’avenir. Sa courtoisie et son détachement font son charme. Le jour il travaille dans un musée, fréquente la crique nudiste de Coco Beach, la nuit il traîne dans les jardins Albert-Ier en quête d’aventures amoureuses… Lorsqu’il rencontre Paulina, Georges et Gaspard dans une boîte de nuit, c’est le coup de foudre. Bientôt, il s’installe avec eux dans une joyeuse colocation, formant désormais avec Paulina et Georges une « triade exquise », une sorte de fratrie amoureuse. Leur vie insouciante ressemble alors au bonheur…
Empreint d’une douce mélancolie, et porté par une écriture sensible, le roman de Philippe Mezescaze décrit une parenthèse enchantée, celle où de jeunes gens reculent le moment de devenir des adultes...
- Bleue
- Paru le 10/03/2022
- Genre : Littérature française
- 184 pages - 140 x 205 mm
- EAN : 9782715259164
- ISBN : 9782715259164
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It is almost by chance that the 23-year-old narrator arrives in Nice, leaving in Paris a past love and his job of actor started when he was a teenager. The Baie des Anges and its palm trees, white laurels and magnolias, the mild climate and the floral scents make possible the idea of a new start. In weightlessness, the young man lets himself be carried along according to his encounters, without worrying about the future. His courtesy and his detachment are his charm. During the day he is working in a museum, frequents the nudist cove of Coco Beach, at night he is hanging out in the Jardin Albert the 1st in search of romantic adventures…
When he meets Paulina, Georges and Gaspard in a nightclub, love at first sight is immediate. Soon, when Gaspard moves away from the group, he settles with them at 18, rue Rossini. This is a joyful shared apartment, forming with Paulina and Georges an “exquisite triad”, like a loving brotherhood. Their carefree life looks like happiness.
Imbued with a sweet melancholy, and carried by a sensitive writing, Philippe Mezescaze’s novel describes an enchanted parenthesis where young people postpone the moment of becoming adults and prolong the time of youth.
Philippe Mezescaze is the author of several novels, among which Deux Garçons (2014) and Les jours voyous (2020). His novel L’impureté d’Irène was adapted into a motion picture by Nicolas Giraud (Du soleil dans mes yeux, 2018).
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