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Oscar and the Lady in Pink (French: Oscar et la dame rose) is a novel written by Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, the third part of the series « Cycle de l'invisible », published in 2002.
- Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
- 2002
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt (French pronunciation: [eʁik emanɥɛl ʃmit]; born 28 March 1960) is a Franco - Belgian playwright, short story writer and novelist, as well as a film director. His plays have been staged in over fifty countries all over the world.
Oscar is dying of cancer and lives at the hospital. His recent bone marrow transplant—his last hope at beating the cancer and extending his life—has proven unsuccessful, leaving Oscar’s parents and doctors hopeless and distant as they avoid the subject of his imminent death.
La Part de l'autre ("The Part of The Other", also called "The Alternative Hypothesis") is a 2001 alternate history novel by Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, the plot serving to illustrate the writer's ideas of Moral Philosophy.
Apr 3, 2024 · The music summons both outside space—a remote island on the Norwegian seas—and the inside—the novelist’s fear of living, his life withdrawn from the world. Its use of a female chorus magnificently conjures the presence of the story’s absent woman.
In 2019, he published Le Journal d’un amour perdu (Diary of a Lost Love) about his mother who influenced his whole life. A deeply personal and intimate text, the book manages to turn the experience of death into a splendid lesson for life. Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt lives in Brussels. The French editions of all his works are published by Albin Michel.
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt is one of Europe’s most popular and acclaimed authors and playwrights. His many novels and story collections include The Most Beautiful Book in the World (Europa, 2009). In 2001, he was awarded the French Academy’s Grand Prix du Théâtre.
