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Charles Dantzig: "I only believe in literature at its highest point"

2021-10-15T04:40:39.471Z


MAJOR INTERVIEW - From “the theory of confinement” to “the theory of conversation”, Charles Dantzig's new essay takes the form of a vagrancy in which the writer delivers his observations on the time.


LE FIGARO MAGAZINE - Your book

Theories of Theories

is, in a way, a toolbox.

There is a theory of September 11, but also a theory of desire, a theory of love or the tie.

For you, it is less a question of defending a thesis than of sharing sensitive experiences ...

CHARLES DANTZIG.

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The title uses the double meaning of the word "theory": the best known, a general proposition on a particular subject, and the other, a series of elements in a row.

If I say:

"There was a theory of delivery vans in front of the

Figaro

building

",

that means that there were several one behind the other.

My theories are arranged in a precise order, which does not prevent us from being able to read them in the disorder that we want.

The reader is always right, since a book needs to be read in order to exist.

He will see that my theories are by no means disembodied.

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Discover Letter from Alexandre Dumas to Marcel Proust about the Pantheon, the unpublished short story of Charles Dantzig

They start from things lived, read, experienced, from which I try to draw trends

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