The impassive: collection of articles by Frédéric Berthet … impassive but not insensitive!

Died in 2003, Frédéric Berthet leaves behind a rare and precious work. Consequently, Between mischievous erudition. Meanwhile, casual elegance, his literary chronicles reveal a singular writer, a lover of digression, lover of books, and slayer of conveniences.

Frédéric Berthet died of what he did not experience. Meanwhile, At 49, a Christmas day. Moreover, And not an overdose of my darling. However, No matter the year. Similarly, It was far too early. In addition, “With the disease, health rests. In addition, ». Nevertheless, This quote is enough to place the impassive: collection articles frédéric berthet guy in the category of remarkable writers. Therefore, returned from everything by dint of finding his happiness anywhere.

Cite Berthet In a worldly dinner gives a certain genre. Take out a copy worn by the rereading of Daimler s va Pockets of a jacket. is a sesame of eccentricity for bubble snberries in the large world. It’s like declaiming Péguy For a politician on a perch or in a meeting.

Beyond appearances. even a homebacker in my genre, who often rhymes dinner and chore, rally and boredom, intermission and patraque, can only be impressed by the finesse of the style of Frédéric Berthet. His pen had class. We can impassive: collection articles frédéric berthet let it stroke us without having to do the peacock with it.
Short texts. which combine humor and depth, titles that tickle curiosity, digressions of ventilation of the spirit and a devouring passion for literature. Everything that lacks a back cover or a summary of history.

His adorations are contagious. After his chronicles. it is impossible not to go for the first open bookstore to claim a Moraviabegging a Carverborrow a Julien Green or steal a Bellow. Some of his texts are more proselytizing than chronicle. An example? Salinger.
“… we should not speak to people who have not read all his books. In the dinners, we would refuse to pass them the salt. At the restaurant, we would always place them at the table placed next to the toilet. For them. the hotels would dispose perpetually complete… ”

His glowing words almost convinced me to try to read authors he admired impassive: collection articles frédéric berthet and that I have carefully avoided until then, like Sollers or Raspail.
The other interest of this collection lies in the chronicles devoted to authors who made the news at the end of the 80s. which we only find today in books with books or libraries of country houses with yellowed tapestries. I will not cite names, no need to insist. This allows me to put some favorites of the moment a little. Today’s successes will be my amnesia of tomorrow.

The dandy deserves that we talk about him without evening outfit. You can read it with an old T-shirt (yes. if, the one that his wife wants to throw for ten years!), Bermuda and Birkenstocks without lack of taste … Unless we put socks with the Birkenstocks, but at this stage, nothing can be done for you.
With this beautiful object. numbered please, the critical mass cannot better bear its name impassive: collection articles frédéric berthet and I sincerely thank The editions of the Round Table For the selection of readings and literary chronicles that make up this stacked press review.
The burlesque title of one of the articles that I really liked to finish. underline the importance of humor in Berthet : Le Cri du Gardon in Berlin-Ouest.

Olivier de Bouty

Impassive: collection articles frédéric berthet

The impassive:
Collection of articles by Frédéric Berthet
Publisher: the round table
112 pages – 22€
Date of publication: April 3, 2025