What France is lacking

[Ya Sam]

"What the contemporary France is lacking , when all is said and done, is a 
Great Mysterious Writer. Somebody as phantom-like as J.D. Salinger or Thomas 
Pynchon, but also French-speaking. An author about whom nothing would be 
known besides several photos, very old, and some books, very considerable. 
....
It was Pynchon himself who gave that information last summer on the site of 
the American bookshop Amazon. A little as though Mahomet had climbed on top 
of a minaret to announce a new version of the Koran."

The author of this article says that Philippe Sollers and Jean d'Ormesson 
will never reach that 'status' as they have been too public. As for Julien 
Gracq, although he is more apt for this position, he, apparently, has no 
wish to compete for it, being resistant to viral marketing and having the 
flaw of answering the phone.

"Ce qui, tout bien pesé, manque à la France contemporaine, c'est un Grand 
Ecrivain Mystérieux. Quelqu'un d'aussi fantomatique que J.D. Salinger ou 
Thomas Pynchon, mais en plus francophone. Un auteur dont on ne connaîtrait 
que quelques photos, très anciennes, et quelques bouquins, très 
considérables...

C'est Pynchon lui-même qui a donné ces précisions l'été dernier, sur le site 
américain du libraire Amazon. Un peu comme si Mahomet était grimpé en haut 
d'un minaret pour annoncer une nouvelle version du Coran."

http://www.liberation.fr/culture/livre/214525.FR.php

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