Benjamin Berton's 'Class Affaires' Dissects Corporate Cruelty

Benjamin Berton's second novel, 'Class Affaires,' published by Editions Gallimard, is a scathing satire of the consulting world. The story follows Eléonore Caribou, a consultant at a large agency, who cracks under pressure and vacations with cruel young executives on the French Riviera. Berton targets the language, sexual behavior, and daily mechanics of this milieu, comparing it to the works of Bret Easton Ellis and Pasolini. The novel explores how sexuality is constrained by sociological competition and exposes the paradoxical ideologies of future ruling classes. With a clinical, ironic style, Berton delivers a comedic yet devastating portrait, earning him the label 'wild boy' of French literature.