Trois jours chez ma mère

Trois jours chez ma mère is a novel about the difficulty of writing a novel. It is built as a story within a story within a story: a writer named François Weyergraf cannot manage to finish a book called Trois jours chez ma mère, about a character named François Graffenberg. The structure mirrors the author’s own struggles; announced by his publisher in 2003, the book took him nearly two more years to complete.