Literature in the Stomach,
by Julien Gracq (1950),
Paul and Jean-Paul,
by Jacques Laurent (1951),
Whipping Dogs,
by François Nourissier (1956): the tradition of the pamphlet denouncing the rottenness of the literary milieu, in vogue in the post-war period, had somewhat fallen into disuse.
There are no longer enough readers to knock on the writers;
you don't shoot at broken down ambulances.
Lydie Salvayre's return to satire is therefore good news: if she wants to stigmatize the literary world, it proves that it still exists.
The form of the false manual of careerism had already succeeded in the past:
Some useful advice for student bailiffs
in 1997,
Small Treatise on Lustful Education
in 2008, parroted the style of the Marabout practical guides to make fun of the hypocrisy of modernity.
His
Irrefutable Essay on Successology
is absolutely gratifying from start to finish.
We all take it in stride.
Self-absorbed novelists, killer critics...
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