Jitrois Summer Reading

Les Eclats, Bred Easton Ellis.

The book of the year for the whole Jitrois Paris team, strangely melancholy, Bret plunges us into a fantasized story about adolescence that it’s up to us to decode. Les Eclats has this extraordinary capacity for immersion that transports us to the L.A. of the early 80s. To be read while listening to the playlist dedicated to the book. Get ready, you won’t be able to stop once you’ve started the 616 pages that will accompany you on your summer nights. Discover here.

Cher Connard, Virginie Despentes.

With her uncanny ability to analyze contemporary society, Virginie Despentes reinvents dangerous liaisons under the #metoo banner, as experienced by a French actress whose identity is anyone’s guess. “Dear Asshole” gives the protagonists a voice with extraordinary humor. Laugh out loud at the water’s edge. Discover here.

American Fugue, Bruno Le Maire.

The big literary surprise of the year, which wrongly brought a smile to the face of the French cabinet. A wonderful piece of fiction about Vladimir Horowitz, to be read while listening to Beethoven’s Walstein Sonata. Discover here.

Memoires d’Hadrien, Marguerite Yourcenar.

Jean Claude’s bedside book, read over and over again throughout his life, like a common thread. Marguerite Yourcenar offers an intimate exegesis of the life of the emperor Hadrian in the form of a testamentary letter to Trajan, offering us an inexhaustible lesson in life. A classic to be reread without moderation. Discover here.

Orlando, Virginia Woolf.

Virginia Woolf is an author who has had a major influence on Jitrois. A reflection on gender equality based on the life of Virginia’s lover, Vita Sackville West, dispossessed of the family castle of Knole due to the Salic law. Also known as the world’s longest love letter, Orlando is a profound analysis of the injustices done to women in England in the early 20th century. Discover here.