Ennemis publics (Litterature Generale)

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They at least understood that if the Church did not break the unnatural covenant it had made with the bourgeoisie and the employers, if it could not forge ties with the working classes, it was signing its own death warrant.“ Let's state the obvious: man is not, in general, a morally admirable creature. To delicately state something less obvious: man, in general, has enough in him to admire that which, morally, is beyond him and to behave accordingly." - Houellebecq pg 109. ovo je više intelektualno nadmetanje, dvoboj, nego korespondencija u klasičnom smislu... formalno, da, jedan drugome pišu pisma (započinje houellebecq), drugi odgovara na pismo i nadodaje nešto svoje i tako kroz šest mjeseci (knjiga sadrži sveukupno 28 pisama pisanih 2008. godine), ali za mene je pojam "pismo" nešto vrlo intimno, osobno i, mogu reći, skriveno... iako i među ovom dvojicom ima određene nježnosti, a svakako respekta, interesa i naklonosti, tek u naznakama odlaze u privatnu sferu.

Mon impression globale en tant qu'observateur, lecteur, est que vous remportez le match. BHL ne peut pas vous suivre, et c'est normal. Il essaye de se hausser sur les épaules des géants précédents (dont les votres d'ailleurs). Il bosse. Mais il lui manque du génie. Un créatif est insaisissable et ne rentre pas dans le cadre. BHL veut être tout et c'est trop. When asked if writing is painful or pleasurable for me, I’ve never known how to answer; the truth, I think, is that it is something else and can take either of those forms. An extreme nervous agitation, an exaltation that can be rapidly exhausting. „ Levy can only commiserate together with Houellebecq, "the golden rule of the literary nuclear war, according to which there is never, absolutely never, the possibility of a second strike." (p 196) Houellebecq goes on to show how much worse it is with the internet, "where people rail against everything without any sense of decency, where everything is exaggerated, insulting, crude...it's depressing the mediocre use humanity makes of this extraordinary tool." (p 212)As they conclude their correspondence, Houellebecq sums it up: "we are never as rational as we think we are" (p 255), and this from the self-identified free thinker! Levy agrees, "that's how life is, absurd, contradictory, you forget that you sold the Bentley, you believe that you always were who you are now until you wake up one fine morning and notice that time has changed you." (p 287) Levy notes wryly (take note, internet controversialists!), "In most discussions people arrive with their convictions and leave with the same ones." (p 286) Yet, despite not converting one another, despite still having no end of differences apart from the merely political, they discovered much about one another and found so much they shared. Les lettres portent aussi particulièrement sur la façon dont internet et la presse se préoccupent des deux auteurs [4 ]. En préambule nécessaire, je dois reconnaître que si ce bouquin paru en 2008 ne m'était pas tombé par hasard entre les mains et contre ma volonté, je ne l'aurais pas lu. Pour de bonnes et de mauvaises raisons. Human beings, in general, are possessed of a surprising ontological self-importance.//But they can have their free will, since they’re so keen on it; it’s like a decoration, it doesn’t cost much and people seem to like it.” 170

A writer named Marin de Viry made an interesting analogy between writing and cycling. People tend to praise the mountainous stages, he said, where each new sentence, like each turn of the pedals, seems to display superhuman effort; but the stages of flat open country where nothing seems to be happening but where, at any moment, things can change dramatically have their own charm; the long stages along flat stretches, or stretches that only seem to be flat.“ I watch out for the things that connect us, the things that separate us, the things that appear to connect us that in reality separate us – our correspondences …

L'enjeu de l'échange n'est ni de persuader, ni de susciter une adhésion. Comme ils le reconnaissent, chacun arrive avec ses convictions et repart avec les mêmes. Le but du dialogue est une confrontation d'idées pour une meilleure compréhension de la vision du monde de l'autre. The philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy, known for his liberal activism, and the novelist Michel Houellebecq, known for his social satire, exchanged letters for six months in 2008. Subjects include the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, where both support Israel but Houellebecq rejects the value of ethnic identity whereas Lévy describes himself as "a Jew who fights". [1] On the subject of wars in Africa and the rise of Islamism, Lévy accuses Houellebecq of apathy and Houellebecq argues for personal freedom over civic duty, describing exaggerated engagement with humanity as a greater danger. [1] Reception [ edit ] Houellebecq assume son impuissance d’où découle la honte, Bernard Henri Levy se donne des raisons de la combattre avec un acharnement digne de Don Quichotte, ce qui en devient presque touchant.

this book moved me. i did not expect to be moved. i expected inspiration, intellectual stimulation, perhaps a couple of laughs, and an insight into m.h i could not grasp from his novels or interviews (also to read BHL for the first time). but i often found myself in awe of both of these writers and their honesty and intellect, and respect for what they have been dragged through. En relation: Road To Perdition est-il une histoire vraie? Explication des vrais gangsters et des influences Public Enemies: Dueling Writers Take on Each Other and the World ( French: Ennemis publics) is a collection of letters between the French writers Bernard-Henri Lévy and Michel Houellebecq, published in 2008. It was published in English by Random House on 11 January 2011. [1] Summary [ edit ]

Maybe not having had a mother makes you stronger, but if so, it does it in a way you wouldn’t wish on your worst enemy. You never take love for granted; to be honest, you find it difficult to believe in love at all. You remain a sort of feral child; never completely at peace, never completely domesticated; always ready to bite.“