Louis-Henri de La Rochefoucauld wins the Interallié prize with “Modern Love” | EUROtoday
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Lhe Interallié prize has chosen this yr to reward biting, humor and delicacy. At second the place the story begins, an previous croc from the backwater of cinema (Michel Hugo, smaller than the large one, however nonetheless handed by means of the Ministry of Culture “with a patter not seen since Maurice Druon under Pompidou”, writes Louis-Henri de La Rochefoucauld) asks Ivan Kamenov, creator of stylish comedies (these “who pick the pockets of the bourgeoisie while remaining popular with less well-off critics”) at the moment missing inspiration, to put in writing a play for his spouse, Albane Blanzac (Oscar-winning and César-winning actress, “funny and cryptic” who is aware of “create the mystery”), within the midst of despair.
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The author, who understands nothing about love or modernity (he has simply separated from his spouse and has, based on his aunt, “still two or three divorces ahead of him”), accepts. The piece can be known as Modern Love. She will recount a tragic time when households seemed like Ralph Lauren commercials, the place the wealthy had been too highly effective, cynical, perverse, the place ladies had been creatures, breadwinners, desserts with expiration dates printed on their buttocks, the place, in fact, love existed, however the place it caught hearth underneath the molded ceilings, between two glasses of Dom Pérignon. “Sade died in 1814, writes La Rochefoucauld. In 1990, he was very effectively regarded. Today, in 2024, he’s as soon as once more doomed to vilification. What will or not it’s in ten years? in twenty? Posterity has no spine. » Time, revolutions, condemnations move: love by no means stops being murdered.
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The author and journalist Louis-Henri de La Rochefoucauld is disarming. His already darkish humor has turned deep black, however he performs the aristo-clown with a lightness that saves the whole lot. Chiseling within the irony, gentleness within the violence, accuracy within the line: no laughter (or yellow, like fever) on this e book as profound because it appears frivolous, however a confidence which all of the sudden makes the ugliness recede with the hope of one other love, of a breath of resistance, of the opportunity of an island.
“Modern Love”, by Louis-Henri de La Rochefoucauld (Robert Laffont, 256 p., €20).
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