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Last November, a North Carolina academic published
Forgetting Camus
.
This month, Geoffroy de Lagasnerie is self-publishing his pamphlet against Kafka.
This epidemic reveals a commercial process: hitting a great writer to stop being invisible.
Already, in “La Grande Librairie” in June 2023, we were able to admire Faïza Guène thus criticizing
The Metamorphosis
(1915):
“He's a guy, he gets up one morning, he's lazy, he doesn't go to work and he turns into a cockroach”,
with the approval of his neighbor on the sofa, Philippe Besson.
Two great masters of the style crushing an Austro-Hungarian woodlice: an audiovisual summit.
The fashion is to kill geniuses to attract attention, like a groupie insults the star who has just refused her a selfie.
The stratagem works: my superiors ordered me to read Lagasnerie, so the toads just need to drool to occupy the space.
Also read: Kafka volume I: the monumental biography of Reiner Stach
What does Lagasnerie say to amuse the gallery?…
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