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Les Frustrés. Selected Pages from Claire Bretécher’s Groundbreaking Work

Les Frustrés. Selected Pages from Claire Bretécher’s Groundbreaking Work

From 1973 to 1980 in the pages of the “Nouvel Obs,” Claire Bretécher each week published a portrait of “Les Frustrés” that earned her the recognition as “the best sociologist of the year” by Roland Barthes in 76. She created sketches of French snobs, intellectuals and left-wingers with her usual astuteness and gentle mockery. Nearly 30 years on, these hilarious sketches are the cheery testimony of all our little quirks that somehow forever remain the same…