Sylvain Tesson once wrote: “
To be French is to live in a paradise of people who believe they are in hell
”.
A phrase often repeated, quoted by public figures, politicians.
A writer's phrase that would only be pretty if its author did not now occupy a singular place in the French landscape.
Neither professional of lamentation, nor prophet of millenarianism, Tesson is unanimous.
Guest star of TV shows or radio morning shows, interviewed in magazines, covers extra, we tear our word.
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In a few years the writer, with a shoulder bag and a first name of a forest divinity, has become,
nolens volens
, the poet, the peddler, the shaman of a tired country, overwhelmed by the news of the Covid which succeeds the strikes, the fire of Notre-Dame de Paris and terrorism.
And his only words, serious, slowly formulated, where common sense is tinged with irony, his right words, loaded with sand and sweat, seem able to invigorate an era
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