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Frédéric Beigbeder: "Self-portrait with books"

2021-11-05T04:18:53.120Z


CHRONICLE - With Books and Women, Michel Schneider transforms his reading into literature, and his life into a work of art.


From him I only knew

Marilyn, last sessions,

a touching psychoanalysis by Norma Jean Baker who obtained the Interallié prize in 2006. Now here is a world book, a monument, a tower of Babel. Despite its Steinbeck title,

Des livres et des femmes

is rather placed under the double sponsorship of Montaigne and Proust. The first, quoted in emphasis, invented literary zapping: talking about books as love, changing the subject to introduce himself without lingering. The second proved that self-analysis and literature can be confused. Schneider's incipit is a direct tribute to that of

La Recherche: "For a long time I believed that books were my genre."

Come on, we've read almost everything, we're now what the British call

“a well-read person”,

let's try to write a great book out of these readings, and by the way, who am I?

Who did I like?

"Where could I have left my life to myself, as one would have forgotten his watch in the locker room of a municipal swimming pool?"

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Source: lefigaro

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