Tựa sách: NOTHING SERIOUSTên (các) tác giả: Justine LévyTên (các) dịch giả: Charlotte MandellNhà xuất bản: Melville House PublishingNăm xuất bản: 2005Mã số xuất bản (ISBN): 0976140772Tóm tắt nội dung:When Louise's husband, Adrien, leaves her for his father's lover, Paula, a surgically enhanced model, the troubled young Parisian editor finds the joy has been sucked out of her life. The daughter of Bernard-Henri Lévy, the author (The Rendezvous) evokes the misery of heartache and unsentimentally conveys her protagonist's hollow sense of desolation in stylized, fragmentary prose. ("Into the trash with all secondhand pre-used words, it's like my heart, and my body, they're also secondhand, they've also loved, suffered, so what?") As the narrative progresses, seamlessly moving between the present and Louise's recollections of her fraught marriage, she slowly begins to see Adrien for the belittling, controlling and vain miscreant he was during their time together. Adding to the lis...