Christophe Guilluy, from the thinker of fractured France to the injured man | EUROtoday

Obviously, it’s a tabacco bar. One of the one ones across the Place de la Bastille, in Paris, which “Has stayed in his juice”. Christophe Guilluy at all times meets these locations that reassure him. In 2017, for one of many very uncommon portraits of him printed within the press, he had skilled Alexandre Devecchio in a harbor “Not gentrified” from Republic. The journalist of Figaro had discovered the place “A little glaucous”. Christophe Guilluy adores these outdated -fashioned trunks, the final ones the place the“We meet ordinary people”. He spends his days there, he wrote there by chaining cigarettes and cafes. “Talking about strangers fits me much more than reading a sociology book, he said. I don’t like the pure spirit, I do not believe in those who are only expressed in concepts. »»

Large, robust, impeccable in his Parisian bet Jean Dark-Sweat with black hooded-pearls, the 60-year-old essayist, not stingy in smiles, never lets go of his gaze interlocutor. Difficult to interrupt, he speaks quickly, with a lot of ease, goes from an idea or an anecdote to the other without cluttered with jargon or sibylline turns. Its vocabulary is clear, simple, precise. Direct. And familiar. After fourteen minutes, he renounces the Vouvoyer which seems to slow it down: “Sorry, however I’m conversant in everybody, it’s not a scarcity of respect. »»

Ten years after the success of Peripheral France (Flammarion, 2014), the writer printed, in February, a brand new work, Metropolia and Peripheria (Flammarion), through which he returns to this method. The ebook, written within the type of a fable-curious for somebody who first made herself identified for geography essays-was impressed by his good friend Jean-Claude Michéa, the leftist thinker, exegete of George Orwell, adored each left readers and younger conservatives. “I got to tell myself that I was not going to publish the same figures yet, compile the same data … explains Christophe Guilluy. We know them and we know very well where it takes us. »»

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