At the city hall in a small town in the South of France, one man starts his campaign to correct the ills that have overtaken his proud nation by lecturing on the art of conversation. In his opinion, "conversation is a specialty that is most eminently French," an art that should be nurtured and practiced and that can help repair France's reputation. Not to mention that being a good conversationalist aids in seducing women, the method the lecturer used to attract Lucienne, his "superbly lumpish" wife.
One of the oddest characters in contemporary fiction, the lecturer can't help but digress about his sad life in the midst of his speech, although he's too self-deluded to realize quite how sad it is. Salvayre's The Lecture is an example of political double-talk and misogyny run wild.
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Lydie Salvayre is a French writer. Born in the south of France to Republican refugees from the Spanish Civil War, she went on to study medicine in Toulouse and continues to work as a practicing psychiatrist.
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