Title : Not tonight, I'm having dinner with my father - Marion Ruggieri - book
Summary : "My father belongs to that generation which, under the pretext that it was born after the war and in full progress, decided that its lifelong fight would be not to die. Not to die, therefore not to grow old. To stop time. At first, I thought he was the only one affected. And then I saw other specimens, I sometimes rubbed shoulders with them: the false young. At first I thought the syndrome only affected men his age, the eternal "baby boomers", then I realized that the next generation was worse. Already false young at forty. That's the problem. People don't want to die anymore. So they steal their children's lives. They are ogres." The ogre here is a father so youthful and seductive that he prefers to court girls younger than his own. He presents her with renewable nymphets with platform heels, while Marion, alias "big" (her nickname!), readily plays the role of a fifty-year-old lover battered by life. Beyond the social issue - fathers and their daughters, Western man prey to an obsession with youthfulness - Marion Ruggieri, while mocking herself as a perpetual teenager, has succeeded in writing a novel that borders on the miraculous: making us laugh at our manly failings and making us cry at such an endearing connection with our father. How can we grow up when our father remains forever the impossible Mr. Baby? At once modest and realistic, tender and cruel, autobiographical but universal, this first novel on the confusion of ages should be a great success with all audiences. Because alas! we are all concerned by this sentence: "The problem with parents today is that they never die. Or that we love them too much."
EAN : 9782246708315
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