Summary
Francoise Sagan: Passing Pain
Learning that he is suffering from lung cancer instantly changes the life of forty-year-old Matthieu. After overcoming the first shock, fear, self-pity, he tries to look objectively at himself, his life, his friends, and those closest to him. In this sort of life balance, some devastating realizations come. Seemingly sincere friends are basically selfish, indifferent and superficial, the lover is stupid and uninterested, the marriage is on the verge of collapse... He feverishly searches for love because death seems acceptable to him only if he is loved, famous, regretted and mourned...
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