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Fluff a la Mode |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / BOOKS FROM ABROAD |
| Author: Cynthia Grenier |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 5/1/1995 |
| Size: 1,837 Words, 10,833 Characters |
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LE PASSAGE
Valery Giscard d'Estaing
Paris: Robert Laffont, 1994
232 pp.
Here in the United States, we have a former president who is a published poet of sorts--Jimmy Carter, who always has had something of a quirky side. Can we ever forget his combat with the killer rabbit or those lustings in his heart? But for a former French president (whose nation, after all, has a long and glorious tradition of statesmen as men of letters) to write and publish a novel about a sexual liaison at a time when he was still contemplating running again for the top office in the land is definitely unique in the annals of French history.
The former president is Valery Giscard d'Estaing, the youngest man (at forty-eight) ever to be elected to the highest office of his land. He was succ...
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...de Chateaubriand, who, even if he was a prodigious writer, as a political figure managed to sink his own political career. "Which, of course," concludes Braudeau, "can in no way be a sign of encouragement for novelist Giscard."
And with a collection of Maupassant's short stories in hand, we can only say with conviction to Giscard: "Monsieur le President, vous n'tes pas Guy de Maupassant."
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