This novel is very readable with this mixture that characterizes the well-known political columnist makes mockery, cynicism and poetry in search of lucidity ... Our man is a lover, not as an intellectual point of view, women (more than the woman if indeed such a concept has meaning - and despite its tendency to abusive generalizations) as the free thought ... and then our reporter, which claims the right, sometimes even left defender of anarchism values (in the best sense of the term). Our man wrote novels to get ideas and a vision for the organization of the world, of the city, men ... But above all to affirm its rejection of the politically correct; social molding that softens as it reinforces the illusion of being, the sole requirement of having only the air. There Raymond Aron in small Zemmour, the "viewer engaged." The Roman made from a variety of real drama, revealing the ambiguous relations between different communities, often at the origins strongly intertwined since Abraham and his servant Hagar the beautiful and fascinating ... (Arabs and Jews would therefore half-brothers and half saeurs, not the well-known enemy brothers comedians). It opens on a world made for living and revealed that only lives or in the Paris suburbs or in a diaspora, but in a society that oscillates between assimilation and integration ... Yet even those from these subcultures (or under cultural groups) may well make trial of a discovery by comparison to that other vision of the interior ...
In short, all this is interesting, often exciting and sometimes disturbing but enjoyable, challenging for personal reflection on our world and its history ... By cons in terms of the plot, this is not a detective story, nor thesis, essayist novel actually quite sociological ... Pleasant by the omnipresent humor, gay derision, also by writing, both simple but not simplistic and just, it does not fall under the great literature. This is a consumer product which is based on a true discrete culture, elegance of style that reflects the contemporary universe that crosses ...
It is clear from this writing, neither bland nor fastfood library, open soul ... and ... happy ... He writes as he is such that he has known and appreciated, and you appreciate the charm of emotional cynical ....
Aron, Raymond, The engaged spectator, PARIS: Fallois Editions, 328 pages.