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The doctor of the Paris night
By day he treated the poor of the Paris suburbs, often for nothing. By night he wrote, under his grandmother's name, the angriest and funniest novel of the century — and French literature has never recovered…
This week's book: Journey to the End of the Night, and how to read it with eyes open.
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