By Le Nouvel Obs
Published on October 6, 2024 at 7:30 a.m.
Journalist Georges Suffert during the television program devoted to the electoral campaigns for the second round of the 1969 presidential election which pitted Alain Poher against Georges Pompidou BERNARD ALLEMANE / INA VIA AFP
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Archives “Intellectuals in chaise longue” by Georges Suffert, a pro-Nixon and Pinochet “little pamphleteer brouillamini”, was analyzed with a scalpel by Claude Roy in 1974.
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“He is sometimes called Jean Dutourd, sometimes Louis Pauwels, other times Jean Cau. » Thus the poet, writer and journalist Claude Roy presented, in the article that we republish below, the figure of the “Bon Gros”, this anti-intellectual and above all anti-progressive with “fat and well-fed ideas”. A figure in which he also placed Georges Suffert, journalist and writer who had just published “Intellectuals in chaise longue” (Plon).
Claude Roy first compares Suffert’s book to others that he judges to be much superior, such as those of Etiemble, Jean-François Revel, Raymond Aron, or Simon Leys on Western Sinophilia. Then he notes the right-wing essayist’s support for Richard Nixon (who had just resigned after the Watergate scandal) and Pinochet, to explain that “the fish that Suffert has undertaken to drown in sales pitch is that the word gauche today…
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