Mathieu Laine will soon publish “Infantilization, this nanny state that wants you well” (Presses de la Cité), in bookstores on January 21.
In 2021, the bias of this column will not change: we will continue to read
the news
for
Le Figaro
in the light of the great books of literature.
In 2020, the companionship of the heroes and thoughts of Giono, Joyce, Camus, Ovide or Roth has allowed us to gain perspective and clairvoyance while nourishing us, in these difficult times, with the beauty of their words.
To read also:
The editorial of the Figaro: "Failures of vaccination, anger and shame"
With the stinging failure of the start of the vaccination campaign, a title naturally emerged:
La Lenteur,
by Milan Kundera.
This book, the first written directly in our language, half-novel, half-essay in this style recognizable among a thousand of our contemporary Czech naturalized French, in reality reflects a reflection on the "pleasure of slowness" without being opposed. to the technique.
But according to the embedded stories, finding their unity of place in a castle
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