Monsieur Raminet's Long Voyage
After a somewhat cloistered, morally upright existence and a life devoted to legal matters, Félix Raminet, at the age of 66, achieves a lifelong ambition in passing his driving test, and immediately embarks upon the ultimate quest for liberty, a 300km drive from Paris to the seaside town of Saint-Malo. His meeting with Jane, a generous, free-spirited, young American at a gas station will irremediably change the course of his existence.
Daniel Rocher, a Parisian lawyer, has provided us over the years with a succession of very different works, novels and short stories, all of which are alternatively funny, serious and melancholy. Monsieur Raminet’s Long Voyage, stamped as usual with the autor’s very own brand of sagacity, mirror mankind’s tender, imperturbable struggle to cling onto some of its most cherished illusions.
