Label: Masturbation

«Au secours pardon»: we'll end up crying together

Avant la critique de la société du ricanement avec «L’Homme qui pleure de rire» (2020), mais après ses frasques de publicitaire cocaïnomane dans 99 francs (2000), Octave Parango a passé quatre saisons en Russie. Dans «Au secours pardon» (2007), le double de Frédéric Beigbeder est toujours aussi misérable, drôle, fascinant, désespérant, horrible, tragique, pathétique, touchant.
«Portnoy and his complex»

«Portnoy and his complex»

Portnoy et son complexe«, the 1969 novel that earned American author Philip Roth his sulphurous reputation, is a must-read. The author had already published a collection of short stories ten years earlier, »Goodbye, Columbus«, which was not a success. Nevertheless, Roth's obsessive themes were already present, starting of course with Jewishness. Like all geniuses, Roth is obsessive. Imagine a Tarantino who wasn't obsessive, or a Proust, a Polnareff, a Flaubert or a Kubrick. And there's one obsession that runs through the whole of »Portnoy and His Complex«: sex.