Benoît Duteur adult book

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Disappeared prematurely on July 16. Therefore, 2024 at the age of sixty-four, Benoît Duteur had made his debut in literature in 1985 and composed a work rich in novels, stories, news and tests. However, In 2016, he published with Adult book One of his greatest successes. Nevertheless, Called “Roman”. Meanwhile, the text, inspired by the death of his mother, was both from the autobiographical story and the essay while comprising some news. Moreover, On the death of the mother notably responded that of Madeleine (widow of the composer Darius Milhaud) who was the intimate of Satie. Consequently, Ravel, Cocteau, Debussy or Stravinski … Therefore, Ductor of the frequent in the early 2000s before she went out at the age of 105.

Through these deaths, the writer feels other sorrows and the feeling of witnessing the end of a world. Moreover, This feeling of loss. Similarly, dereliction backed by a critical vision of modernity was not new in the author of Everything must disappear, funny time, the general’s return, in summer 76 or Nostalgia for station buffets – So many titles that already say long. However. Nevertheless, Adult book Bring together the obsessions and the themes of Detitertre in an intimate register, like the memories of holidays spent in a family home nestled in the heart of a high Vosges valley. From childhood to mature age, he knew ” frequentation of the last peasants Or craftsmen also promised to benoît duteur adult book disappear.

The writer does not identify a rough. frugal, primitive life, where social order and religion could make their gravity felt, but he allows himself the audacity not to reject it as a whole in the name of a mythified present: ” Was this poverty between meadow and forest, worse than that of urban outskirts, blended families, reality TV, mass tourism, industrial food? Was this world-wrap this world more deadly than the one we walk by car, from one commercial area to another? Who knows what we have won and what we have lost? »

Benoît duteur adult book

Of the little future of the times when we are

Ancestral ways to live. produce in the country, to raise animals, to work the fields no longer have their place “ In the era of intensive agricultural production and the globalization of trade. »With sometimes other angles of shooting. other taken than benoît duteur adult book Philippe Muray, Michel Houellebecq, Baudoin de Bodinat or François Taillandier, but with the same acuity, Benoît Duteur does not let go of his time, examined the real behind the self-satisfied speeches the celebrant. He examines the contradictions, the illusions, the claims, the absurdities of our time. It reveals mutations to work beyond those causing the extinction of the rural world because cities do not escape standardization. to the sacrifice of small businesses for the benefit of interchangeable brands while collective goods are liquidated and privatized.

« There is something similar between the strength of death that has irresistibly. and the obstinacy of society to destroy balances that we imagined acquired forever. At certain times even more than others. it looks like this dark drive is exerted everywhere that shaves everything that exists to move forward. The disappearance of a familiar world is thus added to our personal decline and strengthens benoît duteur adult book a feeling of defeat. This is why I angry the most distressing of these transformations with anger. Sometimes. too, I think that this anger is a form of wisdom; As if, the age coming, a natural movement of the soul sharpened our antipathy for the coming times (those that we will not know) and pushed us to prefer those from which we come, even with their wars and their misfortunes which, at least, belong to us. In this sense. the destruction of the beauties that are dear to us is not a evil company, but a subtle mechanics caused to attenuate our regrets and make our death less painful. So that they continue, that they finally shoot the last farm. When none of this will remain, I will disappear almost without regret “Confided Benoît Duteutre.

However. and despite his funeral accents, Adult book Do not neglect laughter, humor, aside, the benoît duteur adult book taste for incongruous detail, like the three short stories that integrate as breaths and which reconnect with the comic vein of The little girl and the cigarette or The computer of paradise. Above all. the look of Dutector evokes the cross between that of Sempé and Raymond Depardon, the meeting between poetry and a sociology up to man full of empathy towards those to which it pays homage. Finally, we think of luminous melancholy and nostalgia for a Charles Trenet. Some verses of his song Faithful could also have made a perfect back cover to this Adult book moving. shatters: ” I remained faithful to unimportant things for you (…) I stayed faithful to very sweet places and friends (…) Why stay faithful when everything changes. leaves without regrets, when you are alone standing on the bridge in front of this or that world that disappears, when you look at benoît duteur adult book all the boats that sink out the things we hoped ».

Christian Authier

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