“My melancholy comes from the state of things” | EUROtoday

But this inveterate pessimist, frozen by TV units within the picture of a cantankerous old style particular person, additionally has the mischievousness of a histrionic, laughing on the “reactionary” nature of his personal outbursts or punctuating with a joke a disenchanted tirade on the “after-literature”.

The publication of Modernity towards the tide (Bouquins), a group of his political texts – essays, interview books, interventions within the press – provides this paradoxical character the chance to take inventory, after virtually fifty years of participation within the…