French Novel

Frédéric Beigbeder was born in 1965 and lives in Paris. He works as a publisher, literary critic and broadcaster.

From the reviews of ‘A French Novel’:‘Frédéric doesn’t just remember his childhood, he relives it in sensuous detail … though the book grows rich with Frédéric’s nostalgia and regret, it is consistently witty in tone … Beigbeder has a unique sensibility … After its cerebral beginnings ‘A French Novel’ builds to an emotionally luscious conclusion’ Evening Standard‘Beigbeder is a wind-up merchant par excellence yet, despite his persona of a finger-stabbing pub bore, he has a fine line in self-deprecation as well as any number of caustic quips’ Metro‘Cooler, self-mocking, but heartfelt as well as ingenious, Frédéric Beigbeder's ‘A French Novel’ sees the French enfant terrible take his brief detention after a drugs bust as the cue for a romp, both comic and melancholy, though his own career of excess consumption, and that of postwar France’ Independent, ‘Books of the Year’