The entry of Jean d'Ormesson in Pleiades is the absolute symbol of undermining work against "elitism" started since the money and glitz and the final victory of ultra-liberalism of the 1980s It is OBVIOUS that there are thousands of writers (I'm not exaggerating) dead or alive that should enter into Pleiades and insipid authors and media level Mr d'Ormesson are legion. We opened the Pandora's box: any means author or poor, can now access this collection which previously was exceptional and unique. I tried to read Jean d'Ormesson, still aborted several attempts to try to understand the passion of the players and the many fans who swooned, even without having read before his innumerable television appearances, while again as in his books he was passing commonplaces, platitudes or stupidities, at kilometer! I have rarely seen this in an author considered favorably by critics and lovers of literature! I read hundreds of pages without ever being able to finish the work, the so-called major books of this "work", "History of the Wandering Jew", "The Sea of customs", "Hope to God." .. I repeat: a threading clichés like pearls! Style: I have a revelation to you, we will all die! You know, man also will disappear! Life, love, science, it's amazing, it's wonderful! etc ... all declined in every sentence, sentence asse commonplace elsewhere. Mr d'Ormesson was already a late writer of several generations when he met with critical acclaim from the 1970s, that is to say from the beginning of the end for arts requirement and hierarchy (oh the bad words!). Jean d'Ormesson is a clever compiler: it looks like a collage of pieces of scientific, philosophical, artistic gleaned from Wikipedia, formed into dialogue between A and B (but compare with Voltaire who was already practicing the spiritual philosophical dialogue, you see the difference!). The reader thinks in ien cultivate greatly course not, it is sometimes not very far from the series "Literature or Science for Dummies". Compare with the theses, intellectual flashes, the use of quotes, formal and stylistic experiments commitment for a fight against the alienating society that writes Philippe Sollers for as long as Ormesson and see the difference in complexity, level of originality between the two works! Also interesting to compare these two writers of happiness because Sollers also keeps popping up in the media and take the stage. But for me, the only account written work. We do not judge the level of a literary work on politeness, sympathy, comforting, smooth, an individual! It is not a job interview! As for the more narrative works, "romantic" of Ormesson as its sagas "Hope to God" or "Happiness in San Miniato," ... it is precisely the sagas, with all the archaisms and all the clichés of the genre . I do not see that they are indeed higher than the sagas of Henri Troyat, Maurice Druon, Irene Frain ... But now, nothing is opposed to what these names fall in turn into Pleiades, n 'Is not it? Authors also cultivated, polished, smooth, that provide a great reading pleasure to millions of readers ... Let us therefore come as JK Rowling ("Harry Potter"), Paulo Coelho ... Pity !!! Even this collection has finally slipped into the new pseudo-egalitarian ideology (because when it comes to gun down and tearing each other apart to earn his place in the jungle of everyday life, bizarre, the soothing speeches and horror selecting disappear !!!). No, the picture of this small Normandy landscape of the 19th century is not worth a Cézanne, not the tube of my youth that I happily humming in the shower is not worth Mozart, Ahmad Jamal or the Who, not the little polar range than I take for the holidays is not worth "Crime and Punishment" by Dostoyevsky. No more tokens, the volume of the Pleiades is not only unnecessary but very detrimental to the rest of the adventure of this collection.
