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Lazare Chanteau
Failed engineer, musician, author
The hypochondriac anti-hero of La Joie de Vivre. Pauline Quenu's childhood companion and the object of her love, he is a walking study in Schopenhauerian pessimism — brilliant, restless, terrified of death, and incapable of finishing anything he starts. He lives off Pauline's inheritance, marries someone else, and remains sustained by her goodwill he does not deserve.
Hypocondriaque anti-héros de La Joie de Vivre. Brillant et inconstant, hanté par la mort, il dilapide l'héritage de Pauline et épouse une autre.
Tall, energetic in bursts, with the restless eyes of someone always looking for the next enthusiasm and the next escape.
Tall, energetic in bursts, with the restless eyes of someone always looking for the next enthusiasm and the next escape.