Nicolas d'Estienne d'Orves says so straight away;
his
Dictionary in Love with Bad Taste,
which has just been published by Plon, is a form
of "huge self-portrait."
A statement that is puzzling.
Indeed, what can a man look like who classifies pell-mell in the manifestations of bad taste that he cherishes: the andouillette, Jean-Bedel Bokassa, Jean-Claude Brisseau, Mel Brooks, "La Chance aux chansons", Jean Yanne, Michaël Youn, Les Charlots, le gras, Dita von Teese, telephone pranks, horse butchers but also collaborating writers…
And, in the demonstrations of bad taste that he loathes: the Champs-Élysées, the Fiac,
Belle du Seigneur
, nose rings, pets, the film
Call Me by Your Name
and the actor Timothée Chalamet (“
asexual and bilingual homunculus who showed proverbial cowardice by abandoning Woody Allen at the time of mitou
”), Anne Hidalgo or even botox and its
“hybrid creatures, the result of experiments…
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