Pavese, Svevo, Dos Passos, Horace, Ovid, Of Forests, Wells, Chesterton, Durrell, Lawrence, Miller, Laxness, Hamsun, Pasolini, Mann, Hesse, Grass, Musil, Schnitzler, Roth, Perutz, Babel, Akhmatova, Mutis, Fuentes, Vargas Llosa, Strindberg,Maiakovski,Tynianov,Grossman,Pound,Singer,Bellow,Tagore,Barrès,Huysmans,Nodier,Artaud,Blanchot,Caillois,Gary,Bonnefoy,Moravia,Morante,Calvino,Desnos,Perec,Rolland Goncourt and will be asked to ante, among many others, the work of Jean d'Ormesson joined those of Gracq, Aragon, Yourcenar, Paz ... and Chateaubriand. At the entrance several possible interpretations :: -Gallimard Wants to make "the Pleiades" a collection among others, and desecrate it, somehow; -a reassessment of the global importance of the work of Jean d'Ormesson is in progress, and "The Pleiades" anticipates this future glory, thus implementing discoverer; -to edit Jaccottet must sell a lot of Jean d'Ormesson; -the book will be offered as a gift to every new subscriber to the Figaro; -or simply the editor find these selected works deserve to enter the prestigious collection. I confess, for my part, favor the hypothesis of the hoax, or worthy of Jarry Tzara ... but they have not gone far enough: they could dare Maurice Druon, after all "big families" worth although "the pleasure of God," and "cursed Kings" are more distracting than "Empire's glory," scholarly sketch remains perhaps the best book by Jean d'Ormesson.
