” You too ? » One of these sleepless nights, like so many others for so long, Bernard-Henri Lévy takes a look outside. From the window of her beautiful apartment at number 8e Parisian district, the philosopher observes the last light going out in the Elysée Palace. “I know he’s going to the “Madame wing” where he’s going to light another one”he writes in his work sleepless night (Grasset, 192 pages, 18.50 euros), to be published on January 8. Like him, the “young monarch” – this is how the writer refers to the President of the Republic – suffers from restless nights. Superman or tormented soul? Is it Ukraine, invaded by the Russians, which is depriving the head of state of rest? Is the Middle East on fire? The power that escapes him? We won’t know anything. Only that Emmanuel Macron stays up late at night.
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From this insomnia shared between the President of the Republic and the philosopher was born a correspondence on Telegram, perhaps even an influence. By one of these nocturnal text messages, Bernard-Henri Lévy suggested to the Head of State, a few weeks after the October 7 attack in Israel, to build an anti-Hamas coalition on the same model as that targeting Islamic State organization. The newspaper Liberation echoes it, the 1is December of that year. The idea is disconcerting. Assimilating Hamas, an Islamo-nationalist movement, to the Islamic State, a transnational jihadist nebula, it took the Quai d’Orsay by surprise and resulted in a bitter diplomatic failure. “People make films. They imagine meetings. Evening visitors. Planned ideological rapprochements. When we’re just insomnia brothers who have nothing better to do, from a certain time, than chat on Telegram.”puts the writer into perspective.
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