num_pages: 150
description: Emanuel Bove's first novel My Friends relates the story of Victor Baton a wounded war veteran trying to reestablish his prewar lifestyle but avoid work. Living in a run-down boardinghouse Baton spends his days searching working-class Paris for the modest comforts of warmth cheap meals and friendship but he finds little. And despite his situation Baton remains vain and unsympathetic a Bovian antihero to the fullest. Bove himself called My Friends published in France in 1923 a novel of impoverished solitude. The book drew praise from such writers as Rilke Gide and later Beckett and is to this day perhaps the author's most celebrated work.
language: English
title: My Friends
publisher: Marlboro Press