Label: French literature

«Au secours pardon»: we'll end up crying together

Before his critique of the «society of sneers» in *The Man Who Cries with Laughter* (2020), but after his escapades as a cocaine-addicted advertising executive in *99 Francs* (2000), Octave Parango spent four seasons in Russia. In *Au secours pardon* (2007), Frédéric Beigbeder’s alter ego is as wretched, funny, fascinating, despairing, horrible, tragic, pathetic, and touching as ever.