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Joie de vivre has given way to gaze de navel. The French are so busy wallowing in their existential estrangement — a state of mind Camus described as “Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?” — that they don’t even have the energy to be rude. And now that they’re smoking electronic cigarettes, their ennui doesn’t look as cool. It’s not that they’ve lost faith in their own superiority. They’ve lost faith that the rest of the world sees it. The whole country has, as Catherine Deneuve says of her crazy blue moods, une araignée au plafond — a spider on the ceiling. nytimes/2013/07/07/opinion/sunday/dowd-goodbye-old-world-bonjour-tristesse.html?hp&_r=0 Robin Molbert
Posted on: Sun, 07 Jul 2013 10:05:56 +0000

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