The latest addition to my website is Emmanuel Bove‘s Mes amis My Friends) . Victor Bâton was wounded in World War I and is now on a disability pension living in a small room in a rooming house in Paris. Victor’s problem is that he has no friends and no girlfriend and he is always eager to acquire a male friend or a girlfriend. The book is about his generally unsuccessful attempts to do so. He has various techniques such as looking so miserable so that people will sympathise with him but when he does seem to be getting close to someone, something goes wrong, often because of his fault and though always. We follow the stories of the various attempted friendships but he ends up alone and wondering how to find a friend. This was.Bove’s first novel written in his own name and became his most successful novel.