J.M. Erre: Le Bonheur est au Fond du Couloir à Gauche
A morose child, a blue-eyed teenager and a neurasthenic adult, Michel H. always showed a remarkable fidelity to melancholy. But the day his partner leaves him, Michel decides to rebel against his sad destiny. He gives himself twelve hours to achieve inner well-being and recover his beloved in the process. To do this, he will resort to the worst extremes: reading the personal development treatises that flourish in bookstores to sell us the recipes for happiness… A disheveled quest for happiness in a 32m² apartment surrounded by intrusive neighbors, a tender portrait of the delights of contemporary society, a free dive into the abyss of feel-good literature, Happiness is at the bottom of the corridor on the left is a novel that will take you will help you bear the weight of life more effectively than an anti-depressant.