«Ploukitudes»: meeting with Jean Romain and Stéphane Berney

Le Regard Libre N° 33 - Loris S. Musumeci and Jonas Follonier

Ploukitudes gives food for thought. The book is so moving that it touches an intimate part of man, namely his redneck side. It took a philosopher (Jean Romain) and a journalist (Stéphane Berney) working together to paint the most absurd and tragic side of society, through their sociological analysis. We meet in a redneck café in the Geneva train station.

Le Regard Libre: What prompted you to write the book Ploukitudes together?

Jean Romain: I'd been publishing posts on Facebook, to create a sort of practical manual of ploukitudes in small episodes. Stéphane Berney then contacted me with his idea of transforming this succession of rather disparate posts into a more structured work.

Stéphane Berney: There was something very powerful in his