La succession الفرنسية 2016

Paul Katrakilis is the grandson of one of Stalin's doctors, Spyridon, who fled the Soviet Union after Stalin's death, taking with him a fragment of the brain of the Peoples' father, and settled in Toulouse . His father, Adrian, is also a doctor. Like his father and his grandfather, Paul in his turn studies medicine, when he does not have the vocation. The Katrakilis? Eccentrics. Some fools, maybe. All, including Paul's mother and uncle, will eventually commit suicide in mysterious conditions. Paul, himself, leads the existence of a man totally unsuitable for the world, more and more foreign to this family that seems passionately devoted to its own extinction. However, the few years he spent in Florida, Miami, Constitute a unique moment of happiness in his life. He finds there a great love, and discovers the existence of the jai alai, this sport whose beauty carries it. But these happy years pass quickly. After the death of his father, he comes across strange notebooks and finally understands what has always been hidden from him. Is Paul going to take his place in this line of men incapable of living? Or will he follow his own destiny? After five years of silence, Jean-Paul Dubois returns to the novel with this book where one finds, intact, his humor, his melancholy, his elegance. He comes across strange notebooks and finally understands what has always been hidden from him. Is Paul going to take his place in this line of men incapable of living? Or will he follow his own destiny? After five years of silence, Jean-Paul Dubois returns to the novel with this book where one finds, intact, his humor, his melancholy, his elegance. He comes across strange notebooks and finally understands what has always been hidden from him. Is Paul going to take his place in this line of men incapable of living? Or will he follow his own destiny? After five years of silence, Jean-Paul Dubois returns to the novel with this book where one finds, intact, his humor, his melancholy, his elegance.