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| La compagnie des eaux |
Valere is so obsessed with eggs that he can only fall in love with pregnant women. His brother, Maxime, is just the opposite, living in a permanent state of angst. When Maxime's wife Eva becomes pregnant for the second time, each man becomes fixated upon Eva's ever-swelling belly. Playing on the contrast between fullness and emptiness, this humorous, ironic and elegantly written novel is a meditation on life, love and language, highly original, yet refreshingly innocent.
Born in 1949 in Brussels where he lives and works, Jean-Luc Outers is the author of L'ordre du jour (Paris: Gallimard, 1987), Corps de metier (La Difference, 1992), and La place du mort (La Difference, 1995).
Recommended by Monique DiDonna.
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