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Paul Emond

    Le Cocu magnifique
    The Dance of a Sham
    • 2014

      The Dance of a Sham

      • 89 pages
      • 4 hours of reading
      3.4(12)Add rating

      The narrator of this novel begins by introducing himself not as a speaker but a listener, spellbound by his friend Caracala's yarns, which blend accounts of youthful mischief with casual references to Cervantes and Laurence Sterne. At first, the spotlight is entirely on Caracala, but the narrator soon begins to distrust his friend, concluding that Caracala is no more than a sham: a performer. Yet the reader will in turn come to doubt the narrator's own pretensions to honesty, until every source of information has become so unreliable as to make the very notion of a "true story" seem like blatant propaganda.

      The Dance of a Sham
    • 1987

      Depuis le temps que l'on se marie, il y a des cocus de toute espèce. Bruno a cependant cette particularité unique : c'est que Stella, qu'il adore, l'aime aussi et tient absolument à lui rester fidèle. Mais un regard mal interprété peut tout changer. Et, pour ne plus subir les affres de la jalousie, il va au-devant du malheur... en poussant sa femme à le tromper.

      Le Cocu magnifique