{"product_id":"9780141194639-jules-et-jim","title":"Jules et Jim","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJules and Jim live a carefree, bohemian existence, they write in cafes, travel when the mood takes them, and share the women they love without jealousy. This book captures the tenderness of three people in love with each other and with life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased on a real-life love triangle and later made into François Truffaut's famous New Wave film, Henri-Pierre Roché's \u003ci\u003eJules et Jim \u003c\/i\u003eis a paean to youth set in free-spirited Paris before the First World War.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJules and Jim live a carefree, bohemian existence: they write in cafés, travel when the mood takes them, and share the women they love without jealousy. Like Lucie, flawless, an abbess, and Odile, impulsive, mischievous, almost feral. But it is Kate - with a smile the two friends have determined to follow always, but capricious enough to jump in the Seine from spite - who steals their hearts most thoroughly. Henri-Pierre Roché was in his mid-seventies when he wrote this, his autobiographical debut novel. The inspiration for the legendary film directed by François Truffaut, it captures perfectly with excitement and great humour the tenderness of three people in love with each other and with life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis Penguin Modern Classics edition is translated by Patrick Evans with an introduction by Agnès C. Poirier and an afterword by François Truffaut\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHenri-Pierre Roché (1879-1959) was born in Paris. After studying art at the Academie Julian, he became a journalist and art dealer, mixing with the avant-garde artistic set; his friends and acquaintances included the artists Michel Duchamp and Francis Picabia, and in 1905 he introduced Gertrude Stein to Pablo Picasso. In 1916, following his discharge from the French army, Roché went to New York and set up a Dadaist magazine, \u003ci\u003eThe Blind Man\u003c\/i\u003e, with Duchamp and the artist Beatrice Wood. It wasn't until his seventies that he wrote the semi-autobiographical \u003ci\u003eJules et Jim\u003c\/i\u003e (1953); his second novel, \u003ci\u003eLes deux anglaises et le continent\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 1956.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf you enjoyed \u003ci\u003eJules et Jim\u003c\/i\u003e, you might like Raymond Radiguet's \u003ci\u003eThe Devil in the Flesh\u003c\/i\u003e, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A perfect hymn to love and perhaps to life'\u003cbr\u003eFrançois Truffaut, director of \u003ci\u003eJules et Jim\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe 400 Blows\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40942943895649,"sku":"9780141194639","price":9.26,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_33050654.jpg?v=1738885775","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780141194639-jules-et-jim","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}