โ Scribed by Emmanuel Bove
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Bove's tale of a World War I veteran living in postwar Paris, searching for friendship and warmth, is an ironic, entertaining masterpiece by one of France's favorite authors.
Colette read the manuscript of My Friends (Mes Amis) in 1923 and launched the literary career of Emmanuel Bove (1898-1945). Rilke and Gide admired him. Though his work was eclipsed after the war, it never vanished entirely: Samuel Beckett and John Ashbery were among its advocates, and Bove has been rediscovered in France, Germany, and the United States. Jane Kramer described in the The New Yorker how Peter Handke (his Austrian translator) and the German filmmaker Wim Wenders "talk about Bove with the same sort of familiarity which Rilke felt...For them the concrete and very precise language in a story by Emmanuel Bove is a language that addresses the eye, a language that the eye can read as images."
The tone of My Friends is ruthlessly accurate: the narrator, Victor...
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