NYRB is reprinting Emmanuel Bove’s beautiful first novel, which has arguably the best title ever: MY FRIENDS.
Revisiting French Classics: Emmanuel Bove’s My Friends. With Donald Breckenridge, Eugene Lim, Jonathon Sturgeon, and John Yau.
https://www.albertine.com/events/revisiting-a-french-classic-emmanuel-boves-my-friends/
WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 20196:30 PM
IN ENGLISH. FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. NO RSVP NECESSARY.ALBERTINE
972 FIFTH AVENUE
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES
My Friends is Emmanuel Bove’s first and most famous book. Its narrator, Victor Baton, is a classic little man, of no talent or distinction or importance and with no illusions that he has any of those things. All Victor wants is to be loved, all he wants is a friend, and as he strays through the streets of Paris in search of love or friendship or some fleeting connection, we laugh both at Victor’s meekness and at his odd pride, but we feel with him, too.
With Victor, Bove has created a kind of everyman, an archetypal, indomitable knight of human fragility who invests the back streets of the city and the unsorted moments of daily life with a weird and unforgettable clarity.
On Wednesday, May 22 at 6:30pm, join Donald Breckenridge, Eugene Lim, Jonathon Sturgeon, and John Yau as they discuss Emmanuel Bove’s masterpiece.
In English. Free and open to the public. No RSVP necessary.
https://www.albertine.com/events/revisiting-a-french-classic-emmanuel-boves-my-friends/