Tanya
Tanya asked:

I sample this book and was a bit intrigued by the plot, but the dull writing style puzzled me. Was it satire? Was it more subtly written in th original French? Had to give it up.

Di I read it in French because it's easy reading and good for increasing my French vocabulary. Not very subtle style. But worth persisting to the end. It's an entertaining mystery story - I had to find out what happened. Rather too long and repetitive, though, and the author's thoughts on the process of writing a book are platitudinous and annoying. Perhaps the bits about how publishers manipulate authors counts as satire.
Nicoleta Lange same impressions (I read it in Italian and translation with very few exceptions so far seems correct) but I want to go the end just to know how far is badly written.
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