The closure of booksellers is not just a drama for booksellers.
The entire chain of the book is concerned, starting with the authors who were numerous Thursday on social networks to denounce this lowering of the curtain.
Little known to the general public but also stars like Riad Sattouf, Joann Sfar or the writer Tatiana de Rosnay whose previous novel "The flowers of the shadow" released on March 12, the day before the first confinement, has never been recovered from this situation ...
With my daughter @ChaJdr to storm the bookstores!
For her: #romaingary @DavidFoenkinos #annieernaux for me #emilezola 🌹 pic.twitter.com/ZsDZpbuSC3
- Tatiana de Rosnay (@tatianaderosnay) October 29, 2020
At the end of the morning, the author of “Her name was Sarah” posted on social networks a photo of her and her daughter, her hands full of books.
“I understand the measures taken by the government and I am not an anti-mask, she announces immediately.
Still, I'm really sad today.
"Sad for her" bookstore friends "who, she recalls, have already gone through" a very very difficult period between March and May and were starting to regain their morale because since this summer because people have returned to bookstores en masse ".
Today, more than ever it is necessary to buy books, insists Tatiana de Rosnay "Last March, I offered myself all the Rougon-Macquart of Émile Zola, that is to say 20 novels and it is an extraordinary rereading", remembers -she.
“It's very simple,” smiles the author.
Zola saved my confinement!
".
While waiting for happier days, she recalls that we can order his book on the bookstore site, "and especially not on Amazon", and go and pick it up while respecting health standards.
Containment: the world of #BD is mobilizing for the reopening of bookstores cc @RiadSattouf @joannsfar #catherinemeurisse #alexisdormal pic.twitter.com/rKaQEAA7Lk
- CĂ©dric Pietralunga (@CPietralunga) October 30, 2020
"Raise your hand if you want bookstores to stay open."
Tagged with President Emmanuel Macron, Prime Minister Jean Castex, Roselyne Bachelot, Minister of Culture, Bruno Lemaire, Minister of the Economy and Jean-Michel Blanquer, Minister of National Education, this tweet is drawn and signed by Riad Sattouf.
"I decided to support bookstores, because I spend most of my time there, because they are my favorite places in the world and I think that books are a staple product", explains the author. of volume V of "The Arab of the future" which is due out on Thursday.
For Riad Sattouf, the large online sales sites being open, an independent bookstore that wishes to continue must be able to do so!
“Why should tobacco and presses open and bookstores not?
Why will we be able from Monday to buy books in a supermarket and not at his neighborhood bookstore?
Sanitary protocols are now in place!
"And Riad Sattouf recalled that he owes the success of his books to independent bookstores who" supported him so much in his early days!
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Another comic book star, Joann Sfar, as soon as the government announced Wednesday evening, posted on his Instagram account a dozen drawings to express his indignation, while going for a walk in various Parisian bookstores with scathing comments: “These moments when we are told that books are not essential goods!
"Or" And we claim to want to conquer fanaticism by relegating culture to the rank of dispensable.
Reread Churchill, shit!
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