Why do I love Raczymow so much?
In
The Late Season of the Fireflies,
he is called Rosenblum.
This old Jew rationalizes and laments.
He deplores the death of a certain intellectual milieu that he once frequented, around the "Chemin", a collection directed by Georges Lambrichs.
With Francis Ponge, the current did not pass.
He preferred Reda, Deguy, Chaillou, Quignard, Weyergans.
However, Raczymow is a kind of new Weyergans, with his taste for erudite digression, but also of Philip Roth French.
In his books, Roth also has another name: Zuckerman.
Rosenblum takes the head and groans because nobody reads it.
He is a
“professional Jew”
(the expression, very comical, is from Luc Rosenzweig).
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All of Raczymow's work is devoted to complicated Jews: Proust, Sachs, Berl… but like the author of
Portnoy,
he is above all exhilarated by the female students he meets at the bus stop.
Not being in New York, Rosenblum strolls through the Luxembourg Gardens, among the students of Lycée Montaigne…
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