Lolita Pille: at 27, I devoured
Les Faux-monnayeurs
At 27, I was writing experimental literature, no longer earning money, living here and there.
One week I was babysitting Beigbeder's cat while he was on vacation, I came across
Les Faux-monnayeurs
.
In general, I don't take books with me when I go to other people's homes, in order to read theirs and get out of my literary monomania.
I devoured it in a day, charmed by the energy and abundance of this big thing, which borrowed qualities from Stendhal and faults from Balzac.
Gide does biological psychology there.
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A character, Vincent, compares Parisians to two categories of fish: the
"stenohaline",
incapable of surviving in a sea that is losing its salt concentration, and the
"euryhaline"
, which adapts perfectly to it and devours the
"stenohaline".
weakened.
In 2022, we cannot say that this has changed.
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