Last published work of poetry: “The Ceremony of Concerns” (Gallimard, 2020, 160 p., € 18).
By what intellectual aberration can an editor transform, during a reissue, a sentence such as
"The sun disappeared in a blaze of fire and the lake reflected wonderful tones of purple and gold"
into the thin sentence
" The sun disappears behind the Alpine peaks and the lake takes on golden reflections ”
?
However, this is what Casterman did by republishing
The Club of Five and the Cirque of the Star,
originally published in 1946.
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This literary castration is a worrying symptom of this generalized leveling which, in the wake of what is called the culture of erasure (“cancel culture”), is in the process of gagging the imagination by extinguishing the flavor of words.
Why this renunciation of the richness of the language in these texts intended for young people?
Why, for example, this renunciation of the simple past in favor of a flattened present?
The habit of tales and
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