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For a long time, I agreed with Ginger Rogers, by Frédéric Vitoux: real riches

2020-02-13T09:10:20.069Z


MONTETY'S ATIENNE CHRONICLE - The 75-year-old writer and academician never lets go of a feeling of illegitimacy. This fills him with lasting concern, a state of movement but also of curiosity which has earned us today an original and moving book.


If Frédéric Vitoux has long proven Ginger Rogers right, it is about his sentence: “ The rich are just poor people with money .” Too much downgraded to be rich, too favored to be poor, the young Vitoux long been tapped. Where does it stand in Parisian society? To answer, it is necessary to start from his father, whose history is known: reckless author of a report in "I am everywhere", Pierre Vitoux was condemned to the Liberation. He drew a feeling of humiliation which weighed on his family. Frédéric however knows that it is from this cultivated and refined spirit, from his library and also from his friendships, that he derives his very sure taste in literature and cinema. The real riches, name of a famous bookstore in Algiers, are therefore not where we believe.

Read also: Frédéric Vitoux: "The great writers are not those who open doors, but those who close them"

" My beautiful ship, oh my memory / Have we sailed enough "? That of Frédéric Vitoux is moored on the banks of the Seine: it is Île Saint-Louis whose holds are filled with memories. Memories of literature

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Source: lefigaro

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