Used book – Maria, François Cavanna

This book is the fifth in an autobiographical series that began with *Les Ritals* and continued with *Les Russkoffs*, then *Bête et Méchant*, and finally *Les Yeux plus grands que le ventre*. At the end of that last volume, the author had reached the very moment he was writing...This present work is, among other things, an attempt at fictional autobiography, the first attempt at fictional autobiography of all time. The story told in the following pages is an account of events that have not yet occurred in the life of the narrator but which almost inevitably follow from what we know of him, his background, his character, based on earlier episodes of his biography—episodes which are scrupulously true, those ones, and genuinely experienced, which provide a sufficiently precise image of him and the protagonists of his "saga" for extrapolation into a not-too-distant future to be possible without too much risk."We are in 1989...And there, the moustachioed man is having a ball! He's working with gusto, boisterous, insolent, tender, aggressive like all shy people, provocative like all desperate people...Philippe Ragueneau, *Le Figaro*"