Affairs of Art (2013)
“He never played it. Except for Hélène everyone knows that, having lived here for a few hours or a few days when François Dubeau still entangled them all. One after the other, or during the other, they had known his body, his bed, his coffee, his cat, and sometimes the words that pirouette beneath a lamp. They had poked about in the long bookcase that started low on the wall, to leave room for paintings. Only novels were corded there, aside from the Flaubert section that held stacks of biographi...es and secondary material, forbidden to even the closest friends.
Denis Léman was the last to have had the chance to be amazed by it. To secure François after an affair of a few days, he had made him a drawing. A wavy line emerging, black, from a red triangle, to which he believed he had succeeded in giving depth. What was important was the title: An Unbroken Lament Rises from the Ergastulum (Flaubert). But Dubeau knew the quotation came from the Robert dictionary, he knew everything, and he had given back the drawing and the trickery, had shown him to the door, had banished him without a word.MoreLess
Denis Léman was the last to have had the chance to be amazed by it. To secure François after an affair of a few days, he had made him a drawing. A wavy line emerging, black, from a red triangle, to which he believed he had succeeded in giving depth. What was important was the title: An Unbroken Lament Rises from the Ergastulum (Flaubert). But Dubeau knew the quotation came from the Robert dictionary, he knew everything, and he had given back the drawing and the trickery, had shown him to the door, had banished him without a word.MoreLess
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