France
Guest of the book fair Svět knihy Praha 2025
Jean-Michel Guenassia (*1950) studied law and worked as a lawyer in Paris. He started to write for a living, writing a number of film scripts and several plays. His first prose work, One Hundred Percent Risk, was adapted into a film. In 2002, he decided to write "the novel of his life" and spent six and a half years working solely on The Incorrigible Optimists Club. When the novel was finally published, it immediately won the favor of critics and readers alike and received several literary awards. After a series of thematically varied books such as The Dream Life of Ernest G. and The Waltz of Trees and Sky, The Promised Lands is a loose sequel to his life novel. In Á Dieu vat (Argo, 2025), he vividly depicts 20th century France, from the era of celluloid dreams to the first atomic bomb.
![](data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="40" height="24" viewBox="0 0 40 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="1" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="feather feather-calendar"><rect x="3" y="4" width="18" height="18" rx="2" ry="2"></rect><line x1="16" y1="2" x2="16" y2="6"></line><line x1="8" y1="2" x2="8" y2="6"></line><line x1="3" y1="10" x2="21" y2="10"></line></svg>)
Book World Prague 2025
11:00 - 11:50
Francouzský institut v Praze, Nakladatelství Argo
Czech, French
"À Dieu vat" tells the story of Arlène, a girl who decides to overcome social barriers and pursue goals that were previously considered masculine. Her generation...
Sunday, 18. 5. 2025
Book World Prague 2025
12:00 - 12:50
Francouzský institut v Praze, Nakladatelství Argo
Jean-Michel Guenassia, author of the acclaimed novel “The Incorrigible Optimists Club” (“Klub nenapravitelných optimistů“, Argo, 2012), will be signing his...
Sunday, 18. 5. 2025
For the best web experience - to make search work, to remember what you have in your cart, to easily find out the status of your order, not to bother you with inappropriate advertising, and to avoid having to log in every time.
Therefore, we need your consent to processing of cookies, ie small files that are temporarily stored in your browser. Thanks for giving it to us and helping us improve the site.