Maurice Lemaître
Le Temps des assis : édition augmentée
Author(s) Maurice Lemaître
Year 1963
Language(s) French
Pages 103 pages
Publisher Centre de Créativité
Description
This violent polemical book, written in the form of a "letter to the Prince" (in this case Pierre Lazareff, the petty emperor of information), is both an implacable yardstick for judging the baseness of our obscure or famous contemporaries, and a weapon of combat for a greater future for mankind. Begun several years ago—and constantly hardened since, without any publisher (even the one who commissioned it) daring to publish it—the work is a scalpel, whose sharp analyses have already proven prophetic. But, beyond a merciless classification of today's people and values, it above all proposes a platform of new solutions and dynamic projects that could bring life back to our sclerotic times. Some of the author's statements may revolt, no doubt, and often appear marked by an intransigence, even a fanaticism, that brutalizes or tenses heart and mind. But running through Maurice Lemaître's style, language and ideas is an undeniable fervor and an irresistible breath of hope. This challenge to the reader, himself called into question, cannot be evaded.