* Patrice Jean is a writer.
Latest book published:
Kafka at the candy-shop (Éditions Léo Scheer).
The column against Sylvain Tesson (and his sponsorship of the Spring of Poets) opens with a reference to Macron's second term which would slide towards the extreme right;
then, the petitioners slide towards Tesson, accused in turn of being far-right.
The text ends with a praise of poetry, which
“
is fundamentally free speech.
»
There is a contradiction there: if poetry is
“
fundamentally free
” speech,
it is also free not to submit to progressive injunctions.
In reality, this praise of freedom is completely hypocritical.
No, the petitioners do not love freedom: they love themselves, and they hate everything that is not like them.
Sylvain Tesson would be a
“
reactionary icon
”
.
It's possible, even if the reactionary side is not the whole of his books.
Do the petitioners know that Baudelaire was more…
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