Alain Finkielkraut will be the guest of the “Rencontres du Figaro”
on Tuesday 5 October at 8 pm
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LE FIGARO.
- Your new essay is called
L'After-Literature.
We are in the middle of the literary season and the bookstores are overflowing with the novelties of the new school year.
What then is this world that you describe from which literature has disappeared?
Alain FINKIELKRAUT.
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Among the books that appear every year, there are some good ones and even some very good ones.
I have never claimed the contrary, nor treated contemporary authors with contempt.
In my program
Répliques,
on France Culture, novelists like Michel Houellebecq, Alice Ferney, Jean-Baptiste Del Amo, Maria Pourchet, Nicolas Mathieu, Yasmina Reza, Emmanuel Carrère, Morgan Sportès, Nathalie Azoulay, Patrick Lapeyre, Laurent Mauvignier, Patrice Jean and soon Michel Bernard occupy a preponderant place.
We cannot therefore speak of a sudden and definitive drying up of literary inspiration.
The problem is not there.
He is
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