Last November, a North Carolina academic published Forgetting Camus. This month, Geoffroy de Lagasnerie is self-publishing his pamphlet against Kafka.

This epidemic reveals a commercial process: hitting a great writer to stop being invisible. The fashion is to kill geniuses to attract attention, like a groupie insults the star who has just refused her a selfie. The stratagem works: my superiors ordered me to read Lag asnerie, so the toads just need to drool to occupy the space. What does LagasNERie say to amuse the gallery?… This article is reserved for subscribers. You have 61% left to discover.