Bøger af Frédéric Beigbeder

One night in a Parisian nightclub and the aftermath of a marriage provide the stories for these two novels by Frederic Beigbeder, award-winning author of 'Windows on the World'.

Sapiens meets Dorian GrayWhat does the man who has everything-fame, fortune, a new love, and a new baby-want for his fiftieth birthday? The answer is simple: eternal life. Determined to shake off the first intimations of his approaching demise, Frédéric tries every possible procedure to ward off death, examining both legal and illegal research into techniques that could lead to the imminent replacement of man with a post-human species. Accompanied by his ten-year-old daughter and her robot friend, Frédéric crisscrosses the globe to meet the world's foremost researchers on human longevity, who-from cell rejuvenation and telomere lengthening to 3D-printed organs and digitally stored DNA-reveal their latest discoveries. With his blend of deadpan humor and clear-eyed perception, Beigbeder has penned a brutal and brilliant exposé of the enduring issue of our own mortality."Behind this wild pursuit of immortality appears a sharper and deeper reflection than you would expect."Elle"Beigbeder has produced one of the most human, touching, relevant, and funny stories about passing time, the acceptance of ageing, and the need to love."Le Parisien"This mad philosophical and biological quest is a life-affirming and intelligent reflection on the meaning of life."Psychologies Magazine

Der erste Marc-Maronnier-Roman erzählt vom ausschweifendem Leben im Paris der 1990er Jahre: Der arrogante Protagonist scheint alles zu haben, was er sich wünscht – Erfolg, eine Eliteausbildung, ein luxuriöses (Nacht-)Leben, eine Freundin. Doch richtig tief geht die Beziehung nicht. Erst als er Anne kennenlernt, merkt er, was echte Gefühle bedeuten können. Nach einigen Hindernissen lebt er schließlich mit ihr zusammen und scheint sein Glück gefunden zu haben. Doch was ist Traum und was Wirklichkeit?Frédéric Beigbeder, geboren 1965 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, ist ein französischer Schriftsteller, Drehbuchautor, Schauspieler und Regisseur. Er studierte Politikwissenschaften in Paris und arbeitete nach der Veröffentlichung seines ersten Romans „Memoiren eines Sohnes aus schlechtem Hause" in einer Werbeagentur als Texter. Seinen literarischen Durchbruch hatte er mit seinem konsumkritischen Roman „Neunundreißigneunzig".

Sapiens meets Dorian Gray in a brutal expose about life and mortality.

Arrested for snorting cocaine off a car bonnet, award-winning author and quintessential dilettante Frederic Beigbeder reflects on his troubled childhood, while spending a night in the cells.In his most autobiographical book to date, the author of the award-winning 'Windows on the World' recounts his stay in police custody, when in January 2008 he was arrested for snorting cocaine outside a Paris nightclub. As he lies in his cell, he revisits his childhood, from the carefree days when his grandfather taught him to skim pebbles at the beach in Cenitz, to his parents' divorce; the conflicting influences of his hedonistic father and his studious, seemingly conventional brother. And then Beigbeder recalls his first, unrequited loves. This patchwork of memories is as much a portrait of the era as it is the story of a fragile, self-critical man who has finally dropped the mask.Witty, sharp, with a pitiless, self-deprecating irony, and yet tender and true, 'A French Novel' is a gem. Beigbeder's search for answers in the lost country of his childhood will speak to a whole generation searching for its soul.

A darkly comic novel about the flip-side of advertising and our 21st century consumer society

A daring, moving fictional account of the last moments of a father and his two sons atop the World Trade Centre on September 11.'The only way to know what took place in the restaurant on the 107th Floor of the North Tower, World Trade Center on September 11th 2001 is to invent it.'Weaving together fact and fiction, empathy and dark humour, autobiography and intellect, 'Windows on the World' dares to confront the terrifying image that has come to define our world, the image onto which we project our fears, our compassion, our anger, our incomprehension.Beigbeder is a fierce, furious, infuriating chronicler of human iniquity and human suffering, and this book is a controversial, yet surprisingly humane attempt to depict the most awful event of recent memory.