Tuesday's books - Diana-Alice Ramsauer
When a book kicks off with Brassens« »copains d'abord« (friends first), the tone is immediately spat out: ready-made phrases - »everything is relative« - morals - »the important thing is to be well surrounded« - and hackneyed metaphors - »it doesn't smell like a rose! Well, not at all. Plume-Patte, is a luminous depiction of a France on the outskirts of the sixties and seventies, the poetry of a garage life, the everyday life of those who «don't set any conditions, nor do they claim any».