The Minister of the Economy, Pole of Literature, does not hide his pride in having inspired this writer who camps in his sincere presidential and diverted in his latest novel, “annihilate”.
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We could almost talk about a hold-up. In the middle of the presidential campaign, Bruno the mayor makes his return from January in a very … offbeat. A return in literary, but not as expected author: Emmanuel Macron not wishing to see his team publishing books before the presidential election, the Minister of Economy and Finance had advanced to November 2021 the publication at Albin Michel of his twelfth book ( The fourth since the beginning of the five-year), an eternal sun.
No, it’s a romantic hero that the boss of Bercy performs this triumphant holiday return. In the small human comedy of Michel Houellebecq (who place Balzac above all) lacked the figure of a minister. It’s done with his latest novel, a powerful and sad book that will appear on January 7 at Flammarion. Bruno The Mayor serves as a model for one of the main protagonists to annihilate, Bruno judge (almost a balzacian name). What a beautiful Christmas gift for a minister who picked in literature (“Richelieu wrote by acting”), and loves to attend the writers (“Jean-Christophe Rufin, Sylvain Tesson, Philip Roth when he was alive, Marie Darrieussecq …”) ! On December 22, in his Bercy office, his cheeks seem even more pink than usual. “Finding thus in what is perhaps Michel’s biggest novel …” Pride and joy triggers his pale complexion and his cheekbones.
He had prepared. “One of the characters is named Bruno, but he is Polytechnician”, had maliciously slipped Houellebecq to the normalien, an aggregate of modern specialist letters in Proust. Reading made, he did not regret “a second” to open the doors of his marital room or the departmental canteen to this writer who likes to document each of his novels as a naturalist. What does it matter that Bruno judge broke with his wife after twenty-five years of marriage or that a strange pirate video mime his virtual decapitation, since this double of the mayor is first “a good type”, austere, bossur, “Gifted”, pedagogue, never “cynical” (unlike the “president”), capable of reciting worms from Musset in the text and in the middle of the night. And presidential. Bruno judge is a romantic hero who still believes in action and places his ambitions (resuscitate the dynamism of the “thirty glorious”) behind the general interest. “Finally a positive portrait of a politician,” the minister cowards in his office.
Dinner and Discussions
The two men knew each other in 2006. “Always take care of the writers”, such is the motto of Bruno the mayor, who leads the firm of Dominique de Villepin when Michel Houellebecq needs a helping hand. “A story of customs and dog”, believes the minister remember, who solves the problem and then receives the man of letters in Matignon. It is again question of the dog by Michel Houellebecq in 2011. The Welsh Corgi of the novelist, Clément, died in Ireland (for Houellebecq, an inextensible grief), and it will have to repatriate the remains to the animal cemetery of Asnières, in The Hauts-de-Seine. The minister understood that at Houellebecq Animal Love is the counterpoint with the dehumanization of society and the disaster in love, two obsessive haughtles.
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