Having depicted for more than thirty years in novels, stories, tales or chronicles the disasters of the times we live in, Benoît Duteurtre has not escaped the trial of lese-progressivism, or even worse.
Aggravating his case, the author of
Everything Must Disappear
and
Voyage en France
(Medici Prize 2001) dares to invoke the past without necessarily insulting it, as evidenced by his love of the Belle Époque.
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However, it is difficult to caricature the writer as a grumpy reactor or an apocalyptic imprecator as his use of critical thinking, doubt and perspective spares him the Pavlovian reflexes of the ideologue.
Part of a very ancient tradition, it is as an artist and satirist that Duteurtre sketches his contemporaries, conformism, crazy ideas, the absurd draped in pseudo-rationality.
Adventurous and playful modernity
Our collaborator's new novel perfectly illustrates his taste for fantasy and the opposite.
Thus, he imagines a return to a temperate climate in the near future...
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