Alain Finkielkraut: “I am neither a scrogneugneu nor a sorrow-to-enjoy” – Release

He doesn’t want to be the “Mischievous blesser of the world to come”. And he proves it. In his last essay which takes the form of a pamphlet, After Literature (Stock), Alain Finkielkraut makes the list of everything he hates, and it is long: the new feminism and his inclusive writing, the anti-racists who unbolt the statues, environmentalists and their wind turbines which damage the French landscapes, the yellow studs that disfigure the streets of Paris (#SaccageParis), the “Vituperation” rap and “Crash” electro … Even the fire at Notre-Dame is not an accident but a “suicide” in front of so many “ugliness”. Versus “The egalitarian ideal” of the left “woke”, term brandished at all costs to designate the militants progress …