Confessions of a Slightly Retrogressive Heterosexual
Published by Albin Michel, Beigbeder's new book plays with mainstream ideas, taking us back to 2018, when French feminists attacked his house and car with pink insults reading "Here lives a rapist." His granddaughter's questions about this event inspired him to write the book.
Frédéric Beigbeder, author of 15 novels, 12 published in Bulgarian by Colibri, says the following about his latest autobiographical novel:
"Confessing in a book does not guarantee you forgiveness; move on if you're looking for anything in this text other than a person trying to understand himself." And Frédéric Beigbeder is doing just that – trying to understand himself, his past, the maddened world in which he lives. With brutal frankness and merciless humor, he settles his accounts with drugs, with alcohol, with, um, sex, reveals his attitude to excessive political correctness, to radical feminism that has degenerated into heterophobia, to the claims of all-knowing and all-powerful newly appeared prophets. Sparing no qualifications, no hiding what he disapproves of, making him a scoundrel accused of mortal sins, no striving for refinement and decency, Beigbeder surprisingly – and perhaps not – concludes his confession by declaring his love for this woman who among the sea of women chooses every god day to be his wife. And he wishes the women and men of the society of overconsumption and advertising a pleasant apocalypse.
It is the most sincere and strongest Beigbeder's book so far.
Frédéric Beigbeder
Frédéric Beigbeder made a brilliant career as a journalist, novelist, literary critic, TV reporter, and a founder of the literary prize “Prix de Flore”. He is a famous Parisian dandy and an addict of clubs and bars like Marc Marronnier – the main character of his first three books: “Mémoire d'un jeune homme dérangé” (“Memoirs of a Deranged Young Man”, 1990), “Vacances dans le coma” (“Holidays in a Coma”, 1994) and “L'amour dure trois ans” (“Love Lasts Three Years”, 1997). Beigbeder was born in 1965, and studied at prestigious colleges. He specialised in political science, marketing, journalism and communications. About ten novels of his have been published so far, including “99 francs” - a relentless satire on the world of publicity. The book has been sold in more than 380 000 copies world-wide. In 2007 the novel was filmed in France.
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