By Tristan Garcia
In a arguable first novel that took the French literary international via typhoon and gained the Prix de Flore, Tristan Garcia makes use of intercourse, friendships, and amorous affairs to teach what occurs to humans while political ideals--Marxism, homosexual rights, sexual liberation, nationalism--come to an finish. As Elizabeth Levallois, a cultural journalist, seems to be again in this decade and at the ravages of the AIDS epidemic in Paris, a drama unfolds--one during which love turns to hate and constancy turns to betrayal, in either affairs of the center and politics.
With nice verve and ingenuity, Garcia lays declare to an period that promised freedom as by no means sooner than, and he paints an indelible, sharp, yet sympathetic portrait of intellectuals misplaced within the age of MTV.
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Doum had quite a handshake. ” William, sitting in back, with his seatbelt on, asked what he meant. ” We drove along. Doum turned up the music. ” Willie kept sitting up straight in the backseat. “Euro house. Ecstasy, baby! The music of tomorrow. If you like it, the future’s yours. ” He was playing this on a ghetto blaster he kept on the dashboard in front of the passenger seat. More or less in my lap. I tried to make conversation. Doum kept looking past me, behind his dark glasses, toward the back.
Not until years later, and hardly even then. When he read Spinoza, Jean-Michel naturally understood none of it. That’s to be expected. But he understood that it was something beyond him, and that it was something he would attain. Philosophy—the dream of a lifetime. That’s the kind of kid he was. A good student. A very, very good student. They lived in Aubervilliers, him, his father, and his mother. His parents had been Gaullists, then they supported Mitterrand. His father left early in the morning for work.
It was more what I guess you’d call traditional. The swing voters backed the Socialists before the victory of ’81. “I voted for Mitterrand myself. “Three years later Elias, keeper of the flame of liberation, tactician of hand-to-hand combat, grand strategist of the avant-garde convergence—this guy who said we should all spend a lot of time thinking about why the nonthinkers (that is, the workers) were always in the right, who said we ought to be educating them so they could show us the way forward, which supposedly was all part of the dialectic, but mostly just meant getting our asses kicked outside some factory gate, this guy Elias … but how can I describe him?