On the occasion of the release of his last book "Our Love", Roger PEYREFITTE returns to the notion of scandal which according to him is hypocrisy and the enemy of the truth. He explains that the Greeks in antiquity also had a scandalous way of being and he quotes an anecdote about Diogenes who engaged in public masturbation. Françoise GIROUD’s reaction which does not find scandalous "that a gentleman has more preference for young boys than for ladies".
Report. Report on the first day of the trial of Michel HOUELLEBECQ. The writer is being sued by four Muslim associations who accuse him of making insulting remarks against Islam. Commentary on images of the trial and photographs of the writer, alternating with interviews with Dalil BOUBAKER, rector of the mosque of Paris, Maître HAFIZ, lawyer of the Habous association and Philippe SOLLERS, writer.
In the new setting of her first show of the new season, Bernard PIVOT receives Christine ANGOT about her novel "L'Inceste", in which she evokes her incestuous relationship with her father. She explains that she multiplied the "handicaps" with this book and that she took risks... She says that if a writer uses autobiographical elements, it is considered "not literally correct".
Bernard PIVOT receives Catherine MILLET, art critic and director of Art Press, who publishes "La vie sexuelle de Catherine M." (Seuil), the story of her sexual experiences. Next to her sits her husband, Jacques Henric. She evokes the "oceanic pleasure" she experiences during her meetings with multiple partners. In such circumstances, it enters "a sort of void", where partners have no faces. When the lights are turned on, she says she can nevertheless form relationships from person to person. She has memorized 49 partners, with whom she has maintained relations, the others are bodies... Bernard PIVOT asks her if her job "could be men" and evokes the idea "that she could have made a lot of money". Catherine MILLET laughs and says that she might win with this book...
Dominique AURY waited until she was an elderly woman to reveal that she was the author of the book "Histoire d'O", written under the pseudonym of Pauline Réage, which caused a scandal when it appeared in 1954. She explains that she wrote this "inappropriate story" to interest her publisher Jean Paulhan. She recalls that a woman who writes an erotic book is "a terrible scandal"... and says what she thinks of "the immorality of women" and sado-masochistic relations...
Interview with the American writer Bret Easton ELLIS (VO, translation off) about his novel "American psycho", which made a lot of noise in the United States and which some publishers refused to publish. The action of this book is located in the 1980s, in New York. The central character, "golden boy" by day and psychopath by night, is above all the symbol of king money during the Reagan years, "money that gave you the possibility to behave any way... until killing...".
The historian and psychoanalyst Elisabeth ROUDINESCO evokes the scandal caused by the release of Simone de Beauvoir’s book "Le Deuxième sexe", published in 1949. She explains that the central thesis of this essay "One is not born a woman, one becomes one" is false but was necessary to challenge the idea that women were by nature destined to stay at home, to be wives and mothers. According to Elisabeth ROUDINESCO it is not the society that makes one become man or woman, there is a difference of the sexes, anatomical.
Interview with Virginie DESPENTES about her book "Baise-moi", published in 1994. She evokes the writing and publication of this novel, the presence of sex and violence... She recognizes herself completely in this book.
Vladimir NABOKOV talks about his novel and the character of Lolita. According to him, she "is not a perverted girl but a poor child whom one debauches"...
Interviewed by Pierre DESGRAUPES, Françoise SAGAN evokes the sudden glory she experienced five years earlier with her novel "Bonjour Tristesse", and the way she helped to forge the image of a writer not like the others.
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