Word: chanteur
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...writers, books and filmmakers that he shared with me, texts with a certain type of intimacy that had the same effect on me as they had on him." One of these influences is François Truffaut, with his tender explorations of relationships; another, the wistful 1970s chanteur Alain Souchon. Delerm's writing contains unexpected metaphors that focus on small observations, like the image of a naked woman that forms and disappears in a cup of sake in the song Evreux. Critics dismiss his style as precious, and ridicule his distinctive enunciation - drawn-out syllables and unexpected, oddly placed, upward...