Plans rapprochés

SIMILAR PLANS How do you tell your own story by telling other people's?
How do you choose the best episodes of your life, the sweetest and the toughest, the happiest and the most serious? How do you discover yourself? How do you share secrets that have always lain buried? The challenge is well matched to the personality: Guy Bedos.
This man will always succeed in surprising us: the author who has been asserting himself with every successive book since Mémoires d'outre-mère, proves here - with portraits of twenty-four people, some expected, others not - that his choices are not always down to chance. By bringing together this ideal cast, he shows us not only who are his friends and who is enemies, who his loves and who his sources of anger, but, more importantly, who he himself is, although he is indefinable and as irresistibly funny as ever.
From Aragon to Signoret, Sagan to Coluche, Isabelle Adjani to Michel Rocard, Jean-Loup Dabadie to his beloved Sophie Daumier, the reader cannot help but conclude that only those conspicuous by their absence are wrong not to be part of this group portrait. Guy Bedos was born in Algeria in 1934. His previous books include Envie de jouer (Le Seuil, 1995), Arrêtez le monde, je veux descendre (Cherche Midi, 2003), Mémoires d'outre-mère (Stock, 2005) and his first novel, Le jour et l'heure (Stock, 2008)