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Can Balzac, Stendhal and Flaubert no longer “capture the attention” of young people?

2021-01-22T19:07:46.050Z


TRIBUNE - The novelist, essayist and scholar reacts to the words of the new president of the National Center of Letters, who intends to promote "a contemporary literature which speaks to adolescents of what concerns them", and which it opposes to masterpieces of French literature.


Hell, we know, is paved with good intentions.

An interview granted by the new president of the National Book Center, Régine Hatchondo, to the magazine

Télérama

of January 13, illustrates the proverb.

The National Book Center, a public establishment placed under the supervision of the Ministry of Culture, is responsible for supporting the entire book chain.

In the interview in question, the new president highlights the ambitions she nurtures when she takes office.

Marked by the Covid crisis, the stated objectives largely consist of increased financial support for bookstores, small publishing houses, small distributors, strong attention paid to authors, and an extreme interest in young people, the emerging readership. erosion, especially in adolescents.

Nothing very original in these ambitions exposed with ardor and realism, and nothing which justifies the reference to the cobblestones of hell, except for a brief passage, dismaying.

After coming up with the idea,

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Source: lefigaro

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