Christian Oster – författare

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.

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.

Fast sechs Monate hat Jacques vergeblich auf die Rückkehr von Constance gewartet. Als die Erinnerung an die Frau, die er geliebt hat, verblasst und der Staub in seiner Wohnung überhand nimmt, beschließt er, dass es Zeit ist, sich eine Putzfrau zu suchen. Schnell hat er sich mit der zurückhaltenden, aber charmanten Laura geeinigt – sie kommt montags, wenn er arbeitet und nicht zu Hause ist. Bald kommt Laura auch an einem zweiten Tag, wenn er nicht arbeitet und sehr wohl zu Hause ist. Mit Wohlgefallen genießt Jacques das gegenseitige Einvernehmen, das nicht viel Worte braucht, tadelt ihren überstürzten Einzug in seine Wohnung mit koketter Nonchalance und erfüllt Lauras Verlangen nach Sex so selbstverständlich wie ein langjähriger Liebhaber. Alles scheint perfekt – bis eines Tages Constance wieder vor der Wohnungstür steht …Prickelnd, komisch, elegant: ein Roman über einen Mann zwischen zwei Frauen.