This Thursday, April 13, Frédéric Beigbeder continues his tour of the sets for the promotion of his book
Confessions of a slightly overwhelmed heterosexual
.
"C to you" on France 5 is the stage of the day.
The writer will remember it.
“I thought you were capable of anything, but not to the point of positioning yourself as a victim”
begins Anne-Élisabeth Lemoine in front of her guest.
“I try to question myself about my generation.
I grew up in the 1970s, in an atmosphere of frenetic, excessive sexual liberation.
Then there was the 1980s, the selfishness, the cynicism, I wrote about that.
I wanted to denounce consumption, advertising.
I told a little about all that, with satire, a little insolent.
Maybe that's what's not happening anymore."
Frédéric Beigbeder initially defends himself.
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They then comment on the various feats of arms of the writer, from the
Manifesto of the 343 bastards
published in
Causeur
in 2013
,
to the publication of the magazine
Lui
through the congratulations addressed to Roman Polanski when he received the César for best director for
I accuse
.
A reward which had caused the exit of the room of Adèle Haenel, scandalized.
“What we're seeing right now is clearly an attempt to disqualify an author without reading their book, it's cancel culture.
This is exactly what I say in my book that is happening to me.
So CQFD, if you want to demonstrate that I am telling the truth, congratulations!
then declares Frédéric Beigbeder before adding, aiming at Anne-Élisabeth Lemoine:
“Off the air, she tells me that she liked my book and there she says it less”
.
“It's not exactly what she said”
intervenes Patrick Cohen before letting his colleague explain.
“Maybe I like being scolded by you”
The journalist who until now contained her annoyance with more or less talent, no longer minces her words:
"I said that I liked your book, that there are many things that convinced me, but that I thought you were doing everything to make people hate you.
That you did everything to be inaudible, to annoy.
You really are a brat Frederic
.
A door open to a new provocation from Frédéric Beigbeder:
"Yes it's true, but it's always been and it's weird now when I go on shows, I get scolded as if I was eight years.
Maybe I like being scolded by you
.
The fight continues between the two.
The rest of the table is silent.
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The journalist criticizes her guest for "
the provocation on every page"
in her book
Confessions of a slightly overwhelmed heterosexual
.
“We know that you are sincere, we understand what you want to explain to us.
We understand that you love women, we understand that you denounce sexist and sexual violence, but you have to go a little too far, ”
laments Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine.
But for the writer, we must not
"enter into this moralization and sanitization of literature"
.
He then recalls that when he wrote
99 francs
in 2000, the book had also caused a scandal.
"It's nothing new, unfortunately.
It may be that the times are less tolerant of impertinence.
This is what we must ask ourselves,”
he analyzes.
"I would like to correct myself to please you, but it's too late, it's over"
finally concedes Frédéric Beigbeder.
“It's a book, it's literature. You can choose not to read it. I read it. You annoyed me. I wanted to pull your hair too, but I wanted to ask you questions, I wanted you to explain to me and you do it sincerely. Indeed, it will disturb, it will not please, but it remains a book, an object of literature”
concludes Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine before receiving the next guest, the musician Riopy.