Florian Eglin, dandyism as the art of refining violence6 reading minutes

Distinguished by his cane and well-tailored suits, the dandy is first and foremost a man who values intellectual beauty. And in a conformist world, he proudly flouts norms, dreaming of himself as «the last glimmer of heroism in decadence», in the words of Baudelaire. Literary dandyism is thus an insurrection of elegance against the trivial. And in this little game of defiance, a figure has emerged in French-speaking Switzerland: Florian Eglin. Meet a literary aesthete who packs a punch.

Le Regard Libre: Solal Aronowicz is a typical modern dandy, constantly oscillating between refinement and violence. What place do you give to this tension between elegance and brutality?

Florian Eglin: In reality, at least in my writing, Solal Aronowicz's violence is purely, entirely and uniquely refinement. Violence is refinement. Refinement is the