Title: Great Love - Erik Orsenna - book
Summary :
It is about love, indeed. Love for France and its landscapes seen from above, love for the grand college that was the Élysée during the first seven-year term, an irritated love for a President, love for guests (the solemnity of the place gives them hot ideas), love for telegrams of condolence, which can lead to the highest ministerial careers... and many other loves besides.
Gabriel, the hero of this book, feeds on everything.
How can we blame him? Men like him, more numerous than we think, doubt their own existence. Hence their ghostly appearances and the practices of timid vampires.
One day, a head carriage and an overly full mouth arrive at the palace. In other words: a lady. From that moment on, in the disordered realm of feelings, the learning of preference begins.
EO
Born in 1947, Érik Orsenna was cultural advisor to François Mitterrand from 1983 to 1986. He has been a member of the Académie française since 1998. His novel The Colonial Exhibition received the Prix Goncourt in 1988.
