Heir to the incredibles of the romantic age, Nicolas d'Estienne d'Orves fleshes out book after book a way of treating elegant life.
Follower of the opposite, he publishes a "love dictionary" in which he endeavored to show that bad taste was more often a contrary taste than the opposite of taste.
LE FIGARO.
- A true dandy cultivates a taste for provocation and cannot be too anxious to please.
Is it in this spirit that you published a
dictionary in love with bad taste
?
Nicolas D'ESTIENNE D'ORVES.
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"What is intoxicating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of displeasing"
: Baudelaire's phrase is famous and sums up the spirit of this book.
The “love dictionaries” are (in principle, at least…) hollow portraits of their author, by interposed subject.
By proposing a theme as biased, subjective and indefinable as bad taste, I stretch my cheek for the slaps or caresses of my readers.
I wanted it like...
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