Front cover image for Les Choses de la vie, roman

Les Choses de la vie, roman

A lawyer driving at 140 km/h on a road in Brittany has a fatal accident. The story first gives the lawyer's thoughts just before the accident, with a technical description of the accident down to the second. Then, the thoughts of the lawyer, in a semi-coma state that cuts him off from all communication, but he can still hear those around him, until death ensues, when he arrives at the hospital in Laval. We learn details of the life and love of this man

Print Book, French, 1967
Denoël, Paris, 1967