| Un barrage contre l'Atlantique | |
| Author: | Frédéric Beigbeder |
| Orig Lang Code: | fr |
| Country: | France |
| Language: | French |
| Publisher: | Éditions Grasset |
| Pub Date: | 5 January 2022 |
| Pages: | 272 |
| Isbn: | 9782246826552 |
Un barrage contre l'Atlantique is a 2022 novel by the French writer Frédéric Beigbeder.
Un barrage contre l'Atlantique is an autobiographical novel similar to Frédéric Beigbeder's previous A French Novel and has the subtitle Un roman français, tome 2 . It is largely told in fragments, consisting of paragraphs with one sentence each. Inspired by a painting he spontaneously buys, Beigbeder reminisces about his life and French society, from his childhood in the 1970s through his time as a dandy in Paris, his relationship with Laura Smet, and his hermit-like life in Guéthary. The book was written at the compound of, a wealthy man who tries to stop the erosion of Cap Ferret by building a large and unauthorised seawall.
Grégory Plouviez of Le Parisien wrote that the book is written with "exquisite melancholy".[1] Jean-Paul Brighelli of Marianne wrote that Beigbeder handles the fragmentary form in a way similar to Heraclitus and Emil Cioran and that Un barrage contre l'Atlantique is a more profound book than A French Novel.[2] The French Review wrote that the book is "much more disparate in content and form" than A French Novel and that "Beigbeder’s admirers and detractors will find much fodder here".[3]