''Écoute'' is a French-language novel by Boris Razon. It is the author's second novel. It is a reworking of '' An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris'' by

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but as a work of fiction. It revolves around a smartphone and surveillance. Razon commented on increasing surveillance. One part is about a person involved in moving illegal drugs who transitions into being a woman so the person would resemble the first woman they had loved. This segment of the novel was an inspiration for the film ''

Emilia Pérez ''Emilia Pérez'' () is a 2024 Spanish-language French musical crime film written and directed by Jacques Audiard. It is based on Audiard's opera libretto of the same name, which he loosely adapted from a chapter of the 2018 novel '' Écoute'' ...

''. PBS SoCal stated that the person "wasn’t that developed over the following chapters".

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