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The best holidays are those that happen within us.
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Frederic Beigbeder, “Love Lives for Three Years”
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Every little thing gains value when the main thing loses its meaning.
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Frederic Beigbeder, “99 francs”
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A man without a woman runs wild: a few days of solitude - and he stops shaving, washing, and purrs like an animal.
It took man several million years to reach civilization, but he could return to the Neanderthal state in about six days. »
Frederic Beigbeder, “Love Lives for Three Years”
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Death is the only encounter not recorded in your planner.
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Frederic Beigbeder, “99 francs”
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Fairy tales only exist in fairy tales.
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Frederic Beigbeder, “Love Lives for Three Years”
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There is only one great love in life, all the loves that precede it are just a test of the pen, and all subsequent ones are catching up.
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Frederick Beigbeder, “Memoirs of an Unreasonable Young Man”
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The two most terrible phrases in the world are: “I need to talk to you” and “I hope we remain friends.”
The funny thing is, they always lead to the opposite result, breaking both the conversation and the friendship. »
Frederick Beigbeder, “Memoirs of an Unreasonable Young Man”
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Time passes too slowly without you.
Tomorrow is a year from now. »
Frederic Beigbeder, “Ideal”
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Our love is good because it is impossible.
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Frederic Beigbeder, “Windows on the World”
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How tiring it is not to be in love: you always have to seduce someone, and the competition is fierce.
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Frederic Beigbeder, “Windows on the World”
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The amazing thing about this life is that it continues.
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Frederic Beigbeder, “Love Lives for Three Years”
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You are the most significant event since man no longer set foot on the moon.
You didn't let me not love you. I simply could not do otherwise. You didn't let me pass by. Love is when you feel that missing someone means missing your life. Love is when you stop hesitating. When all other women seem insipid. I miss you before I even know you. »
Frederic Beigbeder, “Romantic Egoist”
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You can search for something or someone for many years and eventually come to the conclusion that you were actually looking for yourself.
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Frederic Beigbeder, “Romantic Egoist”
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The only question in love is this: when do we start lying?
Are you still as happy when you return home, where the same person is waiting for you? When you say “I love you” to him, do you still think that way? There comes - inevitably comes - a moment when you have to make an effort on yourself. When “I love” will no longer have the same taste. For me, shaving was the first warning sign. I shaved every evening so as not to prick Anna with stubble when kissing her in bed. And then one night - she was already asleep (I was somewhere without her, came back in the morning, typical petty disgust that we allow ourselves, justifying our marital status) - he took it and didn’t shave. I thought, it’s okay, she won’t even notice. And that simply meant that I didn’t love her anymore. »
Frederic Beigbeder, “Love Lives for Three Years”
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To be in love is to be surprised.
When the surprise wears off, the end comes. »
Frederic Beigbeder, “Romantic Egoist”
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Here are three phrases that should be said when breaking up with a woman: “I’m leaving you,” “It’s all over between us,” and “I’ve stopped loving you.”
As long as they are not pronounced, everything is still fixable. »
Frederic Beigbeder, “Romantic Egoist”
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In short, when you cheat on your wife, there are two options: either you stay with her, but nothing works out, or you leave her and nothing works out anyway.
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Frederic Beigbeder, “Romantic Egoist”
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Women are already cooler than us, but if they also have a sense of humor, we’re screwed.
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Frederic Beigbeder, “Romantic Egoist”
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It finally dawned on me.
To pick up a chick, the main thing is not to give in to her endless “no”. Most famous seducers are pretty average guys. They simply resign themselves when they are rejected, but then immediately get into trouble again. No woman will say “yes” on the first try. When she sends you away, you need to quietly step aside for about five minutes (so that she becomes excruciatingly painful), then return, try your luck again, and so on. »
Frederic Beigbeder, “Romantic Egoist”
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When there are no friends, the birthday is celebrated in a nightclub.
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Frederic Beigbeder, “Romantic Egoist”
Quotes by Frederic Beigbeder
It is contraindicated for ideal couples to calm down. Self-improvement is the further continuation of the relationship; there is no time or energy for narcissism. There is no need to smile forcedly and falsely - there is someone to advertise films in Cannes.
The phrase: “If you leave me, I will commit suicide,” marked the first year of marriage. – Frederic Beigbeder
Love is a chemical concept. The words that explain its nature are obscure: norepinephrine, luliberin, famin, prolactin and oxytocin.
Caviar in the morning, at lunch and for dinner. You won’t last that long – you’ll get sick and tired of such a tasty, but limited and monotonous diet. Now imagine yourself in a marriage. No difference.
F. Begbeder: I hate pretentious, noisy and public events. The best holidays are within each of us.
The third year of marriage is more stable and balanced: “If you leave me, I’ll open a bottle of Burgundy to celebrate.”
Only a beautiful face excites a woman. If they prove to you the beauty of breasts, the slenderness of legs, the beauty of a bust or sirloin, then they have come across girls with an ugly face. The guys, in order not to fail, focused on the remaining parts of the female body.
Read the continuation of the best aphorisms and quotes of Frederic Beigbeder on the pages:
Here's the simplest test for falling in love: if, after spending four or five hours without your lover, you begin to miss her, then you are not in love - otherwise ten minutes of separation would be enough to make your life absolutely unbearable.
Death is the only meeting not recorded in the organizer
A man is old if he said yesterday to a girl born in 1976: Seventy-six? I remember there was a drought that year.
When you make someone else suffer, you do the worst thing to yourself.
Sex is a big lottery: two people can love it separately and not get a thrill together.
The two most terrible phrases in the world are: I need to talk to you and I hope we can remain friends. The funny thing is, they always lead to the opposite result, breaking both the conversation and the friendship.
The truth is that love begins with roses and ends with thorns.
about the author
Beigbeder began writing the book “The Ideal” when he reached the age of forty. The writer was born in 1965, in a small town near Paris. His mother was engaged in literary translations. Father is the creator of the first French private power grid.
Beigbeder graduated from the Institute of Political Studies and then majored in advertising and marketing. Thanks to this area he became famous. In the 90s, a highly paid copywriter wrote several stories that did not arouse much interest among readers. Then, deciding to give up his career in the advertising business, Begbeder wrote an exposé book. In the novel “99 Francs,” he spared neither himself nor his colleagues at the Young and Rubicam agency. The copywriter, of course, was fired, but the novel, which is a satire on the advertising business, brought considerable fees to its author. The hero of the book, Octave, later appeared on the pages of the work “Ideal”.
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Love lives for three years
Love lives for three years - this is the law of nature. So says Marc Marronier, familiar to readers from the novels “99 Francs” and “Holiday in a Coma.”
But the reason for his divorce from his wife has nothing to do with the laws of nature, it’s just that new love captures him entirely, leaving no room for anything else.
However, Mark believes in his theory and therefore, with hidden fear, awaits the approach of the fateful date.
99 francs
The novel “99 Francs” is a vicious satire on the advertising business, mercilessly exposing this crazy and full of vicissitudes world, in which everyone despises each other and human resources are so mediocrely wasted...
Beigbeder's novel is provocative, written in the spirit of the times and very polemical.
It became a real highlight of the literary season, and its author, fired from an advertising agency on the eve of publication, left the world of advertising to immediately enter the world of bestsellers.
Ideal
Frederic Beigbeder, an all-European literary star, author of the world bestsellers “99 Francs”, “Love Lives for Three Years”, “Windows on the World”, “Romantic Egoist”, became famous over the years for his scandalous visits to Russia - with violent adventures in nightclubs and trendy bars of both capitals. It was about Russia that he wrote his new novel. Its release in France turned into a colossal scandal.
Beigbeder returns to the stage his own double - the hero of the novel “99 Francs” named Octave Parango. A successful and cynical advertiser is now coming to Russia: he is looking for a new “advertising face” for the global giant of the cosmetics industry. Swirling in a whirlwind of snow, beauties and cocaine, Octave unexpectedly falls selflessly in love.
In moments of despair, he confesses to a familiar priest in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, simultaneously commenting on his adventures. “The Ideal” is a confessional novel turned inside out in a “Russian” key, a paradoxical and ironic text about a world subordinated to the dictatorship of fashion, glamor and refined debauchery. And also about love: according to Turgenev and Beigbeder.
Holidays in a coma
“Holiday in a Coma” is a daring and funny caricature of modern French bohemia, which considers itself the center of the universe.
The best of the best, the cream of society - artists, painters, musicians, top models, expensive whores, crazy people and children are invited to the opening of the new disco "Nuzhniki".
Among the guests is Mark Marronier, who is looking for love in this crazy world... and finds it - however, not at all where he expected.
Romantic egoist
Frederic Beigbeder is the most scandalous and noisy of the current literary stars of today's France, the author of the world bestsellers “99 Francs”, “Love Lives for Three Years”, “Holiday in a Coma”, “Windows on the World”.
Begbeder’s “romantic egoist” is, in his own words, “Lego from Ego”: under the guise of a hero, the author himself either confesses, or a fictitious writer, fed up with fame, slanders himself.
Clubs where the Parisian literary bohemia flirts, beaches and discos of fashionable resorts, “hot neighborhoods” and prestigious hotels, social and artistic life of the largest metropolises, including Moscow - the details of the puzzle flash mixed with witty assessments of our era and its heroes against the backdrop of a vague awareness of the impending collapse.
Windows on the World
A year after the terrorist attack that destroyed the World Trade Center in New York, Frederic Beigbeder painfully searches for words that can express the unspeakable.
The horror of a reality that has surpassed the darkest Hollywood fantasies - and at the same time seeks to understand how the most terrible disaster in American history could have happened.
And how can we all live in the new world that emerged on the planet on September 11, 2001?
French novel
“The French Novel” is an autobiographical book.
It is based on a real story from the life of the author: for using cocaine in a public place, Frederick Beigbeder, by that time already a famous writer, was detained by the police and taken to prison.
Finding himself in a dirty, cramped cell, he becomes desperate. And suddenly, emerging from the depths of his memory, memories of childhood and youth appear before him, the gloomy walls seem to move apart and disappear for a while, and in their place, one after another, pictures of the past appear, episodes from the history of his family.
"The French Novel" caused a heated discussion in the press. The undoubted literary merits of this work were awarded the prestigious Renaudo Prize for 2009.
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Una & Salinger
F. Begbeder, with his inherent desire to shock, defines the genre of his new book “Una & Salinger” as faction, that is, fact plus fi ction. The facts are simple: 1940, New York.
21-year-old aspiring writer Jerry Salinger met 15-year-old Una O'Neill, the daughter of a famous playwright. The idyll did not last long, a few months later the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Salinger went to fight in Europe, and Una decided to try her luck in Hollywood.
Having auditioned for a role in Charlie Chaplin's film, she received the main role in his and her life. Salinger fought honestly, then made his way through magazine publications into great literature and finally created his main work - “The Catcher in the Rye.” But Beigbeder is interested not so much in the facts as in that magical meeting of the heroes, which turned into separation for life and yet became what determines this life.
Interview with the son of the century
Frederic Beigbeder is a modern French writer, author of the bestsellers “Love Lives for Three Years” and “99 Francs” - relevant, sarcastic, smart. The conversations that Begbeder, as a literary critic, had for a number of years with famous writers turned out to be the same.
Among the heroes of this book are the Italian Umberto Eco, the French Michel Houellebecq (“Elementary Particles,” “Humility”) and Jean d’Ormesson (“God’s Pleasure”), the Americans Chuck Palahniuk (“Fight Club”) and Bret Easton Ellis (“American psychopath") and many other wonderful authors belonging to different generations and literary movements.
Reading a book, it’s easy to feel like you’re talking to extraordinary people who have seen a lot in your life - as if you’re sitting at the same table with them, with a glass of good wine, agreeing or looking for counterarguments. Join us, bon appetit!
Begbeder and Russia
In his books there are no sentimental exclamations either to his native Paris or to cold Moscow. Some readers do not perceive Beigbeder’s work precisely because of the cynical phrases that are present in abundance on the pages of his novels. Nevertheless, the writer treats Russian culture with due respect, which is impossible not to notice after reading the novel “Ideal”.
Begbeder has been to Moscow more than once. Not long ago, in 2021, he visited the Russian capital again. During his last stay in Moscow, the best-selling author of the early 2000s answered questions from journalists. In particular, he explained where and how he acquired the reputation of a snob and a communist (which in Europe and the USA is almost synonymous with the word “criminal”), spoke about how the film was created based on the book “Ideal” (Begbeder invited a Russian to play the role oligarch Alexei Guskov), said that he is a big fan of Ivan Turgenev.
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Frederic Beigbeder is one of the most fashionable and outrageous French writers of our time. A rebel, a snob, a self-confident egoist and a successful advertiser - he became the author of such brilliant novels as “Holiday in a Coma”, “Love Lives for Three Years”, “99 Francs”, “Ideal”.
Beigbeder's books are translated and republished all over the world, and his statements have been wandering around the Internet for many years. Amateur. media suggests recalling several quotes from the writer’s works and determining what the provocative prose writer thinks about love, happiness and modern reality.
“The only good news: grief makes you lose weight. Nobody advertises this diet, but it is the most effective of all. Depression For Weight Loss. Want to lose weight? Get divorced, fall in love with someone who doesn't love you, live alone and be sad from morning to evening. The extra pounds will melt away like snow in the sun. Your body will become slender again and will be able to serve you well - of course, if you survive."
“Love lives for three years”, 1997
“In life there is only one great love, all the loves that precede it are just a test of the pen, and all subsequent ones are catching up. Love is now or never"
“Memoirs of an Unreasonable Young Man”, 1990
“Pleasure has one important virtue: unlike happiness, it exists”
"Stories on Ecstasy", 1999
Young Frederic Beigbeder (left) with his brother Charles
“A mosquito has an eyelid of one day, a rose has three. A cat's age is thirteen years, love's age is three years. And there's nothing you can do about it. First a year of passion, then a year of tenderness and, finally, a year of boredom.
In the first year they say, “If you leave, I WILL commit suicide.”
In the second year they say: “If you leave, it will hurt me, but I will survive.”
In the third year they say: “If you leave, I’ll wash it with champagne.”
“Love lives for three years”, 1997
“Alcohol is like love: how good it is at the beginning...”
"Windows to the World", 2002
“Dying for love is not difficult. It's hard to find a love worth dying for."
"Ideal", 2007
25-year-old Frederic Beigbeder
"There are seconds that are longer than others"
"Windows to the World", 2002
“Every person needs some kind of hobby - supposedly for the purpose of “getting out of stress” - but you understand perfectly well that in reality people are simply trying to survive and not go crazy.”
"99 francs", 2000
“Only idiots applaud in two places: in the movies and on the plane when it lands.”
"Romantic Egoist", 2005
Frederic Beigbeder and Jean Dujardin playing the role of Octave Parango in the film “99 Francs”
“I blame consumer society for making me what I am: insatiable. I blame my parents for making me what I am: spineless. I often blame others so as not to blame myself."
"Windows to the World", 2002
“To love someone, you must first love yourself”
“Love lives for three years”, 1997
“I lost my glasses, and myopia makes me an optimist”
“Memoirs of an Unreasonable Young Man”, 1990
Frederic Beigbeder as a flight attendant in the film "99 Francs"
“In America, dreams come true not because Americans want them to come true, but because they dream. They dream and don't think about the consequences. For a dream to become a reality, you must first dream.”
"Windows to the World", 2002
“The euro was invented specifically to make the obscenely high earnings of the rich look six times more modest.”
"99 francs", 2000
“The most amazing thing about this life is that it continues”
“Love lives for three years”, 1997
Author - Anna Zarubina
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Beigbeder’s “Ideal”: reviews
The novel is filled with the author's aphorisms, deep and witty. But not everyone likes Beigbeder’s books. And among Russian-speaking readers they often cause a rather negative reaction. Reviews of the novel “Ideal” are negative and positive, perhaps in equal proportions. Some people like Begbeder’s style and style of narration, his succinct and sarcasm-filled judgments. But for some, the French writer’s statements about Russia are nothing more than slander and slander.
Begbeder's hero claims that for Russians for a quarter of a century, the only entertainment was carnal pleasures. At the same time, he makes an amendment: except for vodka and snitching. He calls Russia a country of conscious amnesia and unpunished crimes. Many more original judgments can be found in “Ideal”. To form your own opinion about their veracity, it is worth reading Beigbeder’s novel.
"Ideal"
In the novel, the author unvarnishedly presented the glamorous, near-oligarchic world of Russia in the 21st century. Octave Parango comes to Moscow to find a new face to advertise a “high-quality” cosmetic product. The hero of the book is looking for a new Kate Moss or another Claudia Schiffer. At the same time, he plunges into the realities of Russian reality, which are somewhat different from his previous ideas about the life of his compatriots Turgenev and Chekhov.
The narration, as in Beigbeder’s other books, is told in the first person. Octave talks about what he encounters on duty in Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod. And what does he see in Russian cities?
It turns out that connoisseurs of Chekhov's prose are no more common here than in Paris. Every representative of the fair sex (starting from the age of 13) dreams only of money and a bright life. There is debauchery and corruption all around (which, however, are components of Octave’s natural habitat). In conclusion, being in a state of frustration, the hero of the book becomes a terrorist.
