"Basically, politics annoys me"
he wrote in "Europe Endless", a long text published on his website in 2002 where he called for Jean-Pierre Chevènement to vote.
Pious lie from the most political of our writers.
By
HP Lovecraft.
Against the world, against life
in
Anéantir
, politics is in his literary work, not, according to Stendhal's formula, a
"pistol shot in the middle of a concert
", but the sound background on which the intrigues flourish. individual.
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of the late Bernard Maris.
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