I can’t wait to read this – I’m debating whether to muddle through in French or wait for the translation. Perhaps Mauvais Garcon could become my spring challenge.
Art v fashion, is precisely how the journalist and writer Marie-Dominique Lelièvre chooses to open her new biography, Saint Laurent, mauvais garçon, which has in recent weeks shocked France. “He was only a couturier,” she writes. “He didn’t invent the artificial heart, he didn’t lead any revolution and he is not the author of any masterpieces.”
Last weekend Lelièvre gave a book talk in Bordeaux. “Half of the people insulted me while the other half praised the book. One man reproached me for ‘killing his dream’. Both sides ended up shouting at each other. I asked the organisers if it was always like this. They replied, ‘only when authors come and discuss the Israel-Palestinian conflict’.”
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