No.
Of course not.
And yet, despite the logical impossibility of seeing these two talk, it is clear that dialogue is exciting. Really exciting.
In two and a half days of hospitalization, I could not let go or wanted to read something else. And now that I'm done, I feel aimless as an orphan. This kind of book I could read it. If they published a second volume of correspondence, I would buy it without hesitation.
Yet these are not the same men talking. Houellebecq already I have not read anything. But I'm going to start ... still, I find it not a beautiful style. His letters are flat with familiar formulas, a lack of rigor in their buildings and weaknesses in the argument.
Facing him, Levy plays the professor. Difficult to do otherwise with a disenchanted troublemaker who balance of horrors on Russia or the suffering of one or the other. Levy literally saves. I still laugh; there is no such material in the letters of his younger brother, the eldest managed to not catch a small piece of anything that was not even the embryo of a thought and his sidekick in this little piece of nothing, out comes a philosophical thesis!
It's fascinating.
This is the sorrow of the small office employee badly about yourself and complexed against the hedonistic sensualist of its own culture.
It is this fascinating contrast, central point of the book, between the vision of a Houellebecq for whom man is a stone launched into space and Levy who, though an atheist, does not see anything else like vision of Man as a creature of God. It is in this amazing contrast between the disenchanted view of the world, full of sadness and without without rigor, as if this world was crushing us too so we can think, and this tremendous desire to live in and enjoy that is tied thesis of the book.
And then there are those pages full of beauty and tenderness of their respective fathers. This very moving way they both talk about their parent and how they were able to watch as a child. These are pages of great finesse and certainly deserve reading.
Immerse in this book! Go for it! You will not regret it: a great opportunity to grow, to dive in Jewish thought, breathe beating heart of the world.
