David Kolski is overseeing the construction of the largest tower in Paris. A highly stressful job with numerous complications, it keeps him from his wife and children. Then, by chance, he encounters Victoria de Winter.
Born in 1965, Eric Reinhardt is the author of four previous novels
and a freelance publisher of art books. He lives and works in
Paris. The Victoria System is his first novel to be translated into
English.
Sam Taylor is the English-language translator of HHhH, by Laurent
Binet. He lives in France and the United States.
Erotic, raw, violent and vertiginous . . . We often accuse French
writers of navel-gazing and ignoring the world around them, but
Eric Reinhardt is one of those who gives the lie to this cliché
*Emmanuel Carrère, author of Limonov*
Bold, arresting, accomplished, complex, sensual, sexual,
intriguing, heady
*Le Monde*
An ambitious and tragic novel which weaves together sex, power
games and imagination. An ultracontemporary anti-fairy tale
*Les Inrockuptibles*
Part classic, part tragedy, part thriller: Eric Reinhardt merges
genres and invokes elusive echoes in this highly contemporary novel
of a rare depth
*Libération*
Finally, a sexy book written by someone who would appear to have
had sex
*Dazed & Confused*
Those who harp on about the decline or end of literature in France,
stuck in its formalism, nihilism or narcissism, are advised to read
The Victoria System. It will give them a good wake-up slap
*La Quinzaine Littéraire*
A fantastic and sensual modern thriller, like nothing I've ever
read
*Christian Louboutin*
Ambitious, complex, sparkling, to be devoured in one sitting
*Télérama*
Reinhardt is a fine and subtle psychologist . . . with a keen eye
for the perverse ways in which capitalism exploits all levels of
society and leaves behind smoking ruins. Anyone who begins this
book will not quickly put it down
*Trouw (The Netherlands)*
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