Louis Begley

About Schmidt is a novel by Louis Begley.

Une éducation polonaise est un roman américain de Louis Begley publié en 1991 en États-Unis et paru en français le 16 septembre 1992 aux éditions Grasset. Ce roman a reçu la même année le prix Médicis étranger.

Recently widowed, Albert Schmidt has triumphantly rediscovered domestic bliss in the Hamptons with Carrie, the Puerto Rican waitress who is younger than his daughter. Schmidt is content with keeping his own hours and steering his own course, even as he becomes entertained--and increasingly ensnared-- by the odd …

A new biography of Western literature's most iconic writer, from the acclaimed novelist and author of About Schmidt.Kafkaesque: the very word evokes tortuous bureaucracy, crushing self-doubt, and an almost unbearable inadequacy in the face of higher powers. After Kafka, it can be said, literature was not the same. In …