What France is lacking

[Joe Allonby]

Ironically, the French have the best french fries. Seriously, I'm not
kidding. If they have contributed nothing else to world culture, they have
done well in cutting potatoes into thin strips and deep frying the shit out
of them in beef tallow.

Nothing beats a huge plate of pommes frites and a gigantic Tuborg on a
sidewalk cafe.


On 11/11/06, Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> "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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