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Alexandre Jardin: "Two years in 'Absurdistan'!"

2021-12-29T18:27:40.477Z


TRIBUNE - In a readily provocative text, the writer lists the absurdities decided by the government since the beginning of the health crisis. In twenty-four months, the executive and the administration will have, according to him, shown a "prodigious inventiveness" in the bureaucratic madness.


Alexandre Jardin's last novel,

La Plus-que-Vere

, was published by Éditions Albin Michel in 2021.

Real madness starts when you normalize it.

As a teenager, I gradually realized that my family practiced high dementia in an honorable, cheeky, artistized version that was very popular.

My furiously improbable parents loved more than reason, the children being asked to survive.

So I knew very early on that adults were demented, unreliable, virtuosos of inconsistency and delirious.

And that they meticulously cultivated the art of normalizing madness by making it honorable.

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But I had not yet understood that my family's cringe could be overcome by a "normal" government of appearance, of prodigious inventiveness.

As a teenager, I would never have imagined that in two dazzling years we would see the tricolor State without laughing inventing self-authorizations signed by oneself to circulate in times of confinement, that the mask would be first ...

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Source: lefigaro

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