"Like a handful of the 18 people who populate her latest novel, Happy Are the Happy, Yasmina Reza is formidably accomplished...Happy are the Happy is another coup, a quick and delicate book that's as funny as it is humane....Characters chime with one another in ways they never realize, a conviviality that is bittersweet. Their voices are self-aware, a little jaundiced, vulnerable, sometimes plaintive, and entirely authentic...Reza is attuned to intensity and banality in equal measure... 'Even if you demolish me, ' Nicolas Sarkozy supposedly told Reza, ... 'you will elevate me': a ventriloquism that encapsulates her method and her gift." --The New York Times Book Review
"The characters in these 21 brief, bittersweet and playfully interconnected stories by the French playwright Yasmina Reza ("God of Carnage") hold tight to philosophies about love...[Reza] fills the stories, most of them six to eight pages long, with efficient detail, making them feel, perhaps unsurprisingly, like a series of vibrant one-acts." --The New York Times "[Reza] is a caustic and witty observer of social behavior...[Happy Are the Happy] is a collection of first-person monologues by eighteen French people whose lives intersect with friendships and rivalries, a ronde, funny but sad, saturated with the longings and competitiveness implied by the broad term "jealousy," and just enough tantalizing whiffs of the roman à clef, involving French political figures, to remind us of the potency of this emotion in real life all the time." --The New York Review of Books "The twenty-one interconnected monologues in this meditation on parenting, death, and relations between the sexes manage to make domestic trifles seem electrifying. With implacable wit and a dramatist's sense of timing, Reza offers snapshots from the psyches of eighteen characters, including a couple who squabble over Morbier cheese and stuffed hamsters, and a retired financier and statesman who taunts his exasperated wife with instructions for his funeral. The tone is wry, warm, and accepting." --The New Yorker "[A] spirited novel...To read Happy Are the Happy is to feel happier after closing the book than one was before opening it. Ms. Reza...writes in an assured, economical manner. She can lead her lifelike, not always likable, characters from the need for enslavement to the desire for freedom in a few deft strokes." --The Wall Street Journal "Reza is a terrific observer of the rhythms of people and relationships. Her writing is amusing and insightful. With Happy are the Happy, Reza has pulled off something both unexpected and magical in a very small book that packs a real punch." --NPR.org "A galère of marital bad behavior--infidelity, a brawl at a cheese counter--can be found in Yasmina Reza's blisteringly funny Happy are the Happy." --VogueThe internationally acclaimed playwright and novelist Yasmina Reza stages a band of eighteen characters at war with their lives, with only humor to sustain them
Happy are the loved ones and the lovers and those who can do without love. Happy are the happy. —Jorge Luis Borges
Schnitzler’s La Ronde gives these twenty short chapters their shape while Borges’s poem gives them their content. As we move from story to story, thrilled to reconnect with an old acquaintance from an earlier scene, we can’t help but admit that we are very much at home in this human comedy that understands all too well the passing thoughts, desires, actions, fears, and mistakes that we have and make day after day, but that we would be incapable of rendering with such acuity and compassion.
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