As Frédéric Beigbeder, also French Gregoire Delacourt He looked into literature from a world of advertising from which both exported creativity and originality.
In the case of Delacourt, possibly with a more literary aspect due to its direct landing in the novel, we enjoy a profound connoisseur of the human psyche (It is what happens when one is dedicated to selling products as if there were no tomorrow). A perfect knowledge about desires and the springs that awaken them to outline each character in detail, each attitude around each scene ...
But what is the wish of wishes? Of course, love in its endless meanings, from the most sexual to the most spiritual (if both things do not end up being the same when joining the line of their ends in a circle)
Delacourt writes about love with rage or delicacy, in the manner of a wise surgeon or by transforming himself into an untimely youthful rampant heart. And so the argument never wears out because it is always new. Because love exists in as much quantity as there are beats; in exponential progression over time lived and hearts still capable of beating.
Top 3 Recommended Novels by Grégoire Delacourt
My Wish List
The point is to face the big changes with order. A wish list, a table of pros and cons, or a journal always serves the cause of tipping points or 180º turns. But in that establishment of desires, anything can happen when one delves deep inside in search of the most buried desires ...
The protagonist of this story is Jocelyne, nicknamed Jo, who runs her own haberdashery in Arras, a small French city, and writes a blog about sewing and crafts, ten golden fingers, which already has thousands of followers. Her best friends are the twins who own the neighboring beauty salon. Her husband, Jocelyn, also Jo, is very normal, and her two children no longer live at home. At this point in her life, she cannot help but feel a certain nostalgia when thinking about the already outdated illusions of her youth, when she dreamed of being a dressmaker in Paris.
When the twins convince her to play EuroMillions, she suddenly finds herself with eighteen million euros in her hands, and the possibility of having everything she wants. That's when Jo decides to start writing a list listing all of her wishes, from a lamp for the entryway table to a new shower curtain; because, to her own surprise, she is no longer entirely sure if money really brings happiness...
The woman who did not age
Coming from a reputed publicist, one might think that in this story we are being sold one of those unfathomable formulas of the current brand. The typical concoction that eliminates wrinkles as soon as our adult skins come into contact with its powerful composition ...
But no, things are serious. From the desire for immortality, or rather for eternal youth (because you can tell me what fun it can be to live forever at 90 years old...), we approach a Betty with a Benjamin Button complex. The point is that from metaphor, allegory and the apology of youth as the only paradise, Delacourt offers us an exciting story sprinkled with pearls about life, love, the imperative of time and the irremissibility of its deadlines...
Until she was thirty, Betty's life was happy. She went to college, found the man of her life, married him and gave birth to a son, her future was promising. But when suddenly it stops getting old, everything starts to falter. What seems like the unattainable dream of so many women becomes a reality for her and an unexpected experience for her family and friends. «Time is not a curse, beauty is not youth and youth is not happiness. This book will tell you that you are beautiful. "
Dancing on the edge of the abyss
There is no doubt that Delacourt's imagination finds a universe much more prolific in sensations in the feminine. The vindication of the feminine also starts from stories like this, groundbreaking in their way of the old ways of understanding the simple fact of surviving oneself.
This is the story of Emma, a forty-year-old married woman with three children, who one day meets the gaze of a stranger. His life takes a 360 degree turn when he is carried away by desire. She lives with her husband, Olivier, in a town near Lille, where she works in a children's clothing store. Her three children are Manon, who is almost a young woman by now; Louis, in his teens, and Léa, about to start it.
The protagonist leads a normal life until she meets Alexandre. It is then that he realizes that he has never really lived. So Emma decides to elope north with her lover despite the advice of her mother and her friend Sophie. Grégoire Delacourt surprises us once again and writes an unexpected twist that will change the main character's plans. Emma will face all the challenges that life presents her, and will discover that sometimes you have to lose, and lose yourself, to find yourself.
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