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On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of “New Obs” and our file on the power of joy, the writer, winner of the 2020 Goncourt Prize for “The Anomaly”, turns to Xénophon.
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“Hope? With Gaza, Bardella, Bolloré, Elon Musk, Hanouna, the climate?… Not easy. In “I remember”, Georges Perec notes:
“I remember:
Ouk elabon'polin' ?
Alagar, elpis éfé kaka !”
C'est la citation – aussi pipi caca qu'apocryphe – de Xénophon qui réjoyit l'helléniste potache depuis des siècles: “I won't get a town but because I hope it's bad”, which will be translated as: “They did not take the city, but in fact, he said, the hope was bad.” Elpis, hope… When Pandora opens, despite the ban, the jar that Zeus entrusted to her, all the ills of humanity that he…
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