It is a book, we prefer to warn you, reader, which contains traces of second degree and corrosive humor. The author of The Ghost Company and of Not Cry (Seuil, 1997 and 2014, Prix Goncourt for the second) paints a sharp portrait of the world of publishing and literature, believing that success, which today consists in pleasing the greatest number, “is the new religion “. With a tone that oscillates between the manual of personal development and the protrusions of a moralist of the XVIIe century, Lydie Salvayre made the trip there to Instagrammers, “BookTubers” and other followers of the instantaneous and the hashtag, believing that the desire “to shine in the eyes of the greatest number constitutes the most archaic and most universal passion whoever is in this world. Veiled pamphlet, sound Irrefutable essay of successology – sometimes a little repetitive – is particularly relentless on social networks, where the slightest hack must today highlight his private life, even if it means falsifying it.
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