The comically tortured thought processes of an amiable and very
confused Parisian slacker are memorably explored in this 1999
winner of France's Prix Medicis: the seventh novel by a popular
author who also writes pseudonymous detective stories and
children's books. Oster's engaging narrator Gavarine loses his job,
a briefcase containing his apartment keys, then his girlfriend; nor
can he find the note explaining her absence he's sure she must have
left . . . on and on the confusions, second thoughts,
qualifications, and distractions proliferate as Gavarine travels
about the countryside, encounters one fascinating and maddening
woman after another, and eventually finds employment, love, and
detente with his own manic, inchoate sensibility. A wry farcical
romance and coming-of-age tale like no other: an altogether
charming entertainment. (Kirkus Reviews)
Winner of the prestigious Prix Medicis and a bestseller in France,
"My Big Apartment" is a humorous and ironic look at the serious
subject of growing up. Always accessible but never facile,
Christian Oster's books tell of the endless human quest for love
and equilibrium in the world. Oster's gift is to make this timeless
theme new through deadpan humor, a slyly cerebral style, and a
deeply ingrained sense of melancholy.
Gavarine, the gentle but immature protagonist of "My Big
Apartment," is ambitious only in the search for love. When he loses
the keys to his apartment, he loses much more than access to his
home. Yet through a true comedy of errors Gavarine ends up finding
everything he was looking for, in a way he could never have
expected.
Though "My Big Apartment" can be read purely as a wry romantic
comedy, the language is unfailingly rich in implications; there is
always more going on in this story than meets the eye. At once
unapologetically sentimental and overtly intellectual, Oster's
writing belongs to that particular strain of French literature in
which seriousness and jest, or passion and the cerebral, fruitfully
coexist without effort or contradiction.
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