“We thank Lola Lafon for collecting her waste to resell it to us”

It was never too late to open a garage sale. Recycling of flat considerations on current events already published in Released, Lola Lafon’s latest book is a series of truisms. At the beginning of the book: “How narrow it is, this gap, between yesterday and tomorrow, in which current events look at us. » Certainly. And at the end: “We are worried because we are alive. » Effectively. If you want to know the language elements of conferences between bohemian thinkers who have given up trying to change the world, learn by heart It was never too late : you will be up to date.

What a waste! Because Lola Lafon has not always been the Madame de La Palice of the 2020s. Her first novel moved like Never Mind the Bollocks of the Sex Pistols. I know something about it since I was the one who edited it (A fever impossible to negotiate, Flammarion, 2003). Twenty years ago, his black bloc prose even stirred the magazine NRV,…