La Ballade Du Mauvais Garcon [French]

By Nan Aurousseau

BALLAD OF A BAD BOY

"This book which, in some ways, begins at the end, follows on from Quartier charogne. I wanted it to be gloriously chaotic. A bit like opening up trunks in my attic, I tugged randomly at scraps of well preserved memory and set them down during the course of the narrative, mixing up my years in prison (in Loos-lez-Lille) with the years after my sentence.

(...) I hope to show how you make the transition from the local interest stories to the cultural pages of a newspaper without falling back into crime. The loves and losses, storms and strife involved in maintaining the relative idleness needed to be creative in a world where the work you can't secure has become the most important thing - that's what this book is about."

Nan Aurousseau

As with Quartier charogne, serious issues and emotions are juxtaposed with humour and showboating. In Ballad of a Bad Boy, whose narrative covers six years in prison, characters break down walls to get to a typewriter, make love in a Peugeot van, bump into Fran ois Truffaut, have dinner with Claude and Anne-Marie Berri, join Khaled in another Aurousseau, less well known than the jailbird and writer: the filmmaker waiting to be discovered.

Nan Aurousseau has written four novels published by Stock, Bleu de chauffe, Du m me auteur, Le ciel sur la t te and Quand le mal est fait. With Ballad of a Bad Boy, he continues the memoirs begun with the truculent Quartier charogne (2012).

• Format: Paperback
• Language: French
• ISBN: 2234074835
• ISBN13: 9782234074835
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Stock
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.5"