As part of a long literary tradition dating back to the "Notes bedside," poetic lists established in the eleventh century Japanese courtesan Sei by Shônagon (and which inspired Peter Greenaway's film "The Pillow Book", which is extracted from the photo that serves banner to this blog), Charles Danzig gives a new dimension to the list with the book's most surprising of this literary season winter Encyclopaedia capricious and nothing at all. "
Those already yawning boredom before the 800 pages of lists can reassure the lists according to Danzig are more than mere enumerations at Ben Schott (author of the bestseller "The Miscellany of Mr. Schott) . True Zelig literature, Danzig juggles styles and moves brilliantly pithy slamming an inventory as a haiku (like the list of titles containing the word "Sunday") to a finely chiseled portrait, slips into the skin of the great moralists time a meditation on cities, love or Venice, a tribute forwards (sublime pages on Proust and Fitzgerald) by elegant sketches before pinning humorous ambitious, vain, literary critics and bad writers (and he cites names!).
As in his "Dictionary of French literature selfish," the author sometimes annoying - for example, why does he want to Rodin's Balzac describes it as "caretaker of the Boulevard Raspail? - and we want to contradict him, but these annoyances are short lived because as scholarship, of enthusiasm and humor admirable. In a lively style and elegant enameled aphorisms, he shares his enthusiasm for "places of extravaganzas, Venice, New York, dancers, and his loathing for Flaubert, Guy Debord," idol of fools "or marriage. A delicious blend that is savored line by line.
Encyclopaedia capricious and nothing at all " Charles Danzig, Grasset, 784 p., € 24.90.
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