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Jules Et Jim
Jules Et Jim | Henri Pierre Roche
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Jules arrives from Austria in belle époque Paris, where he is befriended by Jim. Together they embark upon a riotously Bohemian life, full of gaiety, color and bustle. And then there is Kate, the enigmatic German girl with the mysterious smile. Capricious, untamed and curiously innocent, Kate steals their hearts in turn, and so begins the moving and tender story of three people in love, with each other and with life. Francois Truffaut, whose film of the novel is one of cinema's greatest achievments, has called Jules et Jim "a perfect hymn to love." Henri-Pierre Roché devoted his life to the arts, numbering Duchamp, Brancusi, Braque, Satie and Picasso amongst his closest friends. Jules et Jim, an autobiographical novel, was originally published in France in 1953 and was followed by Deux Anglaises et le Continent, which Truffaut also made into a film. "A delightful account of people sharing and unsharing each other."?Times Literary Supplement
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Love and indifference swept through them by turns. Indifference was gaining; but love, when it came, still cancelled everything else.

jessicarenee I haven't read this but Jules et Jim is one of my favorite movies! 9y
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I had a hard time separating this from the iconic film. I didn't like the prose style (perhaps translation) but got use to it by the end. The film felt more immediate, the book more cerebral. Enjoyed both in different ways.

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