"La Saison des bêtises" by Mathilde Henzelin follows Victoire, a young woman navigating a hedonistic lifestyle marked by endless parties and drug use in Berlin and Paris. The novel's structure, with chapters titled by her age (25, 26, 27), illustrates the passage of time and the gradual consequences of her choices. Henzelin's pulsating prose captures Victoire's journey frominitial exhilaration to a harsher reality, avoiding typical redemption narratives to focus on her struggle against the world's harshness.