The two artists animate this cultural return by seizing the same questions that tell our time: society, loneliness and death. To analyse.
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By Said Mahrane
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VShese are the two cultural events of this beginning of the year 2022, there are no others. Three years later Serotonin, Michel Houellebecq publishes a new novel entitled annihilate (Flammarion). After seven years of silence, the singer Stromae unveiled on TF1 a title from his next album. A title named Hell.
The first, Prix Goncourt 2010, writes at his own pace, when inspiration and even more intuition come to him, but always tending to the same backdrop: the anomie caused by our model of society, all oriented towards consumption and technology, which lead to the gradual collapse of the load-bearing wall that is our civilisation. The characters are in his image or that of people around us and whose significance often translates the tragic banality…
De Gaulle – Think, resist, govern
His name has become synonymous with a free and powerful France. De Gaulle, the man of the appeal of June 18, has established himself in history first as a rebel, a resistance fighter and then as a charismatic political leader, in France and abroad. Adored, hated during his presidency, he became after his death a myth, an ideal politician that on the right and on the left we begin to regret.
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