Books and women
, what work is hidden behind this title, which can be considered cavalier? Answer: one of the most unique autobiographies we have read. Singular because its author, Michel Schneider, turns his back on the “I” without borrowing from the Caesarean genre of the emphatic third person. After recognizing himself in the portrait of Arcimboldo "librarian", he decided that he would speak of him under the name of
"the man with the books"
: this qualifier is not, moreover, usurped, as those- these mark its existence. His own book reflects this: straight away we see that he is nourished by an immense culture, drawn from the best sources: Flaubert, "
his dear Gustave
», Stendhal, Proust.
On him as on Baudelaire, or Pascal, or Marilyn, Schneider wrote original and penetrating essays.
To read also
Frédéric Beigbeder: "The self-portrait with books"
Tenors of the autobiographical genre accompany him in the writing of this self-tale: the Sartre des
Mots
and Rousseau.
We were going to forget Montaigne, with whom he is obviously looking
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