Pascal Ory: the era of astonishment

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GRANDSTAND. The historian and academician, fond of comics, questions, from the “Vivès affair”, the metamorphoses of cultural censorship.

By Pascal Ory

Svintage supper, not long ago, on a television set. A speaker is angry with Emmanuel Macron, from the official portrait that appears in the town halls of France, because one of the open books on the presidential office would be signed by André Gide. She does not get angry with the author of these liberating texts that were once Earth Foodsthe Travel to the Congo Where Return from the USSR, even less against a Nobel Prize for Literature. No: Gide is in his eyes no more than a “pedophile” and the Head of State would be permanently splashed with it.

I don’t know if the individual Bastien Vivès falls under the law; From what I understand: no. But the question is not there: if so, that the complaints are filed, and that justice is exercised. What this sixty-eight…