A French Novel. Frédéric Beigbeder

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      Maman: very young, with fine blonde hair, wearing a light dress, pale azure eyes, white teeth, shy and refined, a posh girl with impeccable manners, living proof that intelligence can rhyme with innocence, eager to escape her starchy aristocratic family, hopelessly romantic, sublime in both body and soul. Ready for a long life of poetry, of love, of pleasure, she will offer herself to …

      Papa: a young, slim, rich man, somewhat overshadowed by his elder brother, he is studious, and at the age of eighteen he travelled round the world. He is focused and passionate, he has piercing green eyes, he is funny without being cruel, an adolescent curious about philosophy and literature like his father, keen to conquer the America that is his mother, relaxed without being blasé, open-minded, pleasure-seeking but not vulgar, proud and smiling, he hates snobs because he knows them only too well, he dreams of embracing the whole world, and my mother.