We miss Philippe Muray.
At a time when the word “reactionary” is overused as a lazy insult in the columns of
Libé
, he deserved this adjective as a title to glory.
Reactionary, certainly.
Not in the sense of the bourgeois right - property and large family (he admits to being furiously
"
infantophobic
"
).
Reactionary by Joseph de Maistre, by Balzac, and by Baudelaire, by the irreversible belief in original sin, by the rejection of the religion of Progress, by sexuality as a mystery, by the love of Reality and by the idea that
“
negative
”
will never be expunged from the world and from human nature.
To discover
PODCAST - Listen to the club Le Club Le Figaro Idées with Eugénie Bastié
The republication by Les Belles Lettres of his masterful
19th century through the ages
, together with the publication of the last two volumes of his journal,
Ultima necat
, a true posthumous masterpiece, allows us to dive back into the work of the
“
knight of the negative
”
(Duteurtre), as one plunges one’s head into a bucket of ice water to wake up from…
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