The Dinner Party (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Claude Mauriac
- First Published: 1959
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Experimental
- Time of Work: 1950’s
- Setting: An apartment in Paris, France
- Genres: Long fiction, Antistory
- Subjects: 1950’s, Paris, Emotions, Novelists, Apartment houses, Parties, Thought or thinking, Dinners or dining
- Locales: Paris, France
Characters Discussed
Bertrand Carnéjoux, the forty- five-year-old host of the dinner party and husband of Martine Carnéjoux. He is the editor in chief of Ring, a newspaper, and author of the book Sober Pleasures, an experimental novel. He has been having affairs with Marie-Ange Vasgne, Armande, the chambermaid, and his secretary, Colette. Throughout the dinner, he reminisces about Marie-Plum, the only woman he ever loved. He once slept with Lucienne Osborn, almost twenty years ago, but he does not recognize her until near the end of the party. He obsesses about...
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