Title : The Bourgeois - Alice Ferney - book

Summary :

They call themselves Bourgeois, and their surname is also a way of life. They are eight brothers and two sisters, born in Paris between 1920 and 1940. They grew up in the wake of the Great War and the beginnings of the Second. In the favorite places of bourgeois society—the army, the navy, medicine, the bar, business—they are part of historical events and social developments. From decolonization to the post-May '68 period, their lives span an entire era. The march of the world never discourages their deployment.
From Jules the elder to Marie the last, the appearance and disappearance of the characters, their aspirations and their commitments punctuate the formidable clockwork of this novel, very different from a simple family saga. For here it is the century that is reconstructed in brief discontinuous sequences, like a vast mosaic where the portraits of the ten members of the family gradually stand out - and a little of their ancestors, and already their children.
Alice Ferney casts a novelist's and historian's eye over this dizzying cycle of time. From a contemporary perspective, she retraces the journey. Constantly moving from the singular to the collective, from individual destiny to the national epic, she reveals history in the making, the errors, the guilty silences, the erroneous choices that explain the confusion of the present. Ample and captivating, Les Bourgeois thus proves to be a formidable analysis of our roots: a book that sifts an entire French century through the sieve of family romance.

• EAN : 9782330081775
  
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