La solitude des professeurs est infinie

by Yannick Haenel

Thirty years on, the narrator Jean Deichel looks back on his first year as a French teacher at a difficult school in Mantes-la-Jolie, west of Paris. Worn down by long journeys, money worries and fading hopes, he retreats into a deep solitude. A finalist for the 2026 Prix Goncourt.