L'École des indifférents

The collection assembles short, episodic sketches and character studies that record urban scenes, chance encounters, and small private obsessions through a conversational first-person narrator. Portraits range from a dreamy, absentminded companion to passersby, shopkeepers, and children, rendered with wry humor, lyrical observation, and ironic distance. Interwoven reflections consider perception, habit, and the surfaces that shape social life, alternating light comedy with gentle melancholy. The pieces favor vivid descriptive detail and aphoristic turns, exploring how commonplace gestures and appearances reveal temperament, longing, and social indifference.