Since Balzac and Maupassant, the modern figure of the journalist has given beautiful characters to literature.
From yesterday's La Vie française, where Georges Duroy is rife, to today's news sites, Bel Ami is doing well.
The narrator of
Clause de conscience
is a veteran of Scoop magazine, he is living his last months in a group in the process of being bought out.
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In the heart of summer, he is called by Coco, a picturesque director of a photo agency – half journalist, half mafia woman.
She offers him an interview with “the new Adjani”: a starlet that she is launching.
Finally proposes… Coco has her method, she vituperates, threatens.
He grumbles, jokes but lends himself to the exercise.
And finally even begins to form a relationship with the young actress, between paternalism and summer flirting.
Conscience clause
The rest of the time, he struggles with the editorial staff of Scoop.
Or a menagerie made up of young lions and large beasts.
Monograph of the Parisian press, the novel by Gilles Martin-Chauffier is of the typology…
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