Prix Goncourt ごんくーるしょう
Edition 7 (1909)
NovelFrench literatureLiterary award
Winners
1 peopleSeen through a young Creole from Réunion arriving in Paris, the novel explores adaptation to the city and the making of a self. Its tension comes from the clash between colonial background and metropolitan life.
A novel that follows a young man in Paris as he moves between belonging and estrangement.
484 pages
colonial experienceParisself-fashioning