Montparnasse Cemetery. At the entrance, a panel on which appear the names of celebrities buried here and there. All very lovable in their lifetime, therefore worthy of being visited in death. The name of Philippe Muray buried in this place does not appear there. Not yet. Fortunately ! Died in 2006, this writer, explorer and uncompromising chronicler of contemporary disaster has not, to this day, been swallowed up by the spectacle society that he abhorred. This genealogist and prophet of the modern monster remains in death what he wanted to be during his lifetime: a spoilsport. A radical intransigent. An apostle of secession and existential struggle:
“I start from the principle that there is only one inexpiable crime and one only: approving the conditions of contemporary existence, the contemporary in oneself, reconciling oneself with it… »
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This perfect disagreement was the subject of a work and an entire life. Relatively ignored during his lifetime, he enjoyed
a short-lived notoriety
post-mortem ...
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