January 25, 1994.
This world is sickening.
No world has ever disgusted people as much as this one.
One of the strong arguments of those who are convinced of the imminent disappearance of the novel is that today's writers show us nothing other than what we already know too well.
It's so true that lots of writers, to escape this criticism, rush into exoticism, historical novels, other bullshit, poetry.
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(…) But no one ever criticized Balzac for describing the world that everyone knew.
And even before that, the universe in which Laclos's characters move, the one in which Jacques and his master evolve, is no different from the universe of these writers' contemporaries.
There is no reason to give in to intimidation and take refuge in unrealism, poetry, historical idyll, that is to say the default approval of the world of today.
Because what is most unbearable among today’s writers…
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