After
The Pedestrian of Rome, The Pedestrian of Florence
and
The Pedestrian of Venice,
Dominique Fernandez completes his collection of walks in Italian cities. He knows Naples like the back of his hand since he was appointed professor of French literature there in 1957. At the time, he was fired from the French Institute for having defended Roger Vailland, an excessively libertine Communist writer. The author of the
Dictionary in love with Italy
regrets that Naples is cleaned, sanitized and invaded by uneducated tourists. It reminds me of Bruce Benderson regretting the disappearance of hookers and sex shops on 42 Street. What can writers talk about if all the big cities in the world have gone to Kärcher?
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The pursuit of the ideal, by Patrice Jean: Julien Sorel in the 21st century
The Pedestrian of Naples,
these are the reveries of a solitary grumbler.
“Fortunately, in the sleepers, there are still havens of dirt and disorder…”
The academician seems to specialize in nostalgia for the shallows.
Already, in
L'Homme de trop,
his last novel, he deplored the institutionalization
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