Démolir Nisard
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| Author | Eric Chevillard |
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| Country | France |
| Language | French |
| Genre(s) | Novel |
| Publisher | Les éditions de Minuit |
| Publication date | 2006 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | 176 |
| ISBN | ISBN 2-7073-1965-1 |
Démolir Nisard (Destroying Nisard) is a 2006 book by the French writer Eric Chevillard[1].
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[edit] Plot summary
The book is about the struggle of the narrator (which looks very much like the author himself) to annihilate Désiré Nisard, a French author and critic (1806 - 1888)[2].
One of the characteristic of Nisard, which seems to attract the hate of the narrator, is the fact that he loathed the burgeoning modern French literature of his times[3]. As he considered that only old-times classicism had a value, the book can also be considered as a critic of a form of nowadays Literary criticism.
[edit] Quotes
- "Rejoignez-moi. Mettons-nous à plusieurs ... contre tous les Nisard de la terre pour qui ...la littérature est un bien triste missel, une école de résignation. Le lecteur y vient tête basse entendre des sermons et des réprimandes ... La folie, la fantaisie, la satire, la hargne et le défi, la mélancolie et tous les autres soleils noirs de la poésie ont roulé dans le fossé." (Join me. Let's do it together... against all Nisard's of the Earth who consider literature as a sad missal, a school of resignation. The reader comes there, head ducked, to listen to sermons and scoldings... foolishness, fantasy, satire, spite and challenge have rolled in the gutter).
[edit] Trivia
The title is a Word play combining two different meanings that use the same word in French :
- Démolir as tear down - in a physical way,
- Démolir as demolish - an argument, in a theoretical way.
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ This book has still not be translated in English.
- ^ It must be noted that the narrator lives nowadays, so what is at stake is rather an annihilation of the works and memory of Nisard.
- ^ He abused of the concept of decadence against Victor Hugo and Romanticism in general.
