Numerous reports have also indicated that Macron does not really want any of this to succeed. His strategy may well consist of bringing the far right to power, calculating that it will then fail. He may even want the far right to win the next presidential election, allowing him to return in 2032.

It should be possible to put together a Socialist-led government with support from Macron's party. The fact that Macron has refused to even entertain the idea shows real inflexibility on his part. Conversely, the left could compromise on the pension reform in exchange for the Zucman tax.

"In this ambitious and accomplished survey, McGuinness addresses the tensions embodied within the emerging 'civilisation du journal' [...] An incisive work of criticism, exploring a state of affairs that feels particularly relevant in our post-digital world.' Lisa Hilton, Times Literary Supplement

"Cet ouvrage, remarquablement documenté et agrémenté d’une quinzaine d’illustrations, offre [...] un tour complet des rapports complexes qu’ont entretenus la presse et la littérature à l’époque où celle-ci entrait dans l’ère moderne." Pascal Ifri, Nineteenth-Century French Studies

"[A] deeply engaged and nuanced study [of] the relationship of modernist literature to the mainstream press." Edward J. Hughes, French Studies

Liverpool University Press's summer sale is on till 20 July, which means that my (reassuringly?) expensive book is vastly less expensive! Use the discount code 27SUMMER at checkout to get 50% off Hustlers in the Ivory Tower. @livunipress.bsky.social

"[A] deeply engaged and nuanced study [of] the relationship of modernist literature to the mainstream press." Edward J. Hughes, French Studies

MON PAUVRE AMI, ALBERTINE N’EST PLUS

You can donate to the restoration fund here:

souscription.amisdeproust.fr/en/

Maya Kulukundis and I recently went in search of the unmarked, dilapidated grave of Proust’s lover Alfred Agostinelli in Nice, and found it after an hour of pacing the cemetery rows. He drowned nearby in the Baie des Anges at the age of 25 after his plane crashed on 30 May 1914.

I will be speaking this weekend at the Dalkey Book Festival
on panels about Dostoevsky (on Saturday, June 14th at 12:30pm) and Proust (on Sunday, June 15th at 3.30pm).
We will be doing our best to win the All-Ireland Summarize Proust contest. Tickets available at the links below.

Yes 7:30 across These Islands. Sorry you can't make it.

@uksdn.bsky.social
NB: This has been rescheduled from the end of March.

I will be speaking on Zoom this Friday, May 2nd with Colin Foss at 14:30 EST/19:30 UK about my book Hustlers in the Ivory Tower as part of the Nineteenth-Century French Studies Unbound series. All welcome! Register here:
southalabama.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
@ncfs.bsky.social @livunipress.bsky.social

This has been postponed, alas. Will be rescheduled soonish, I hope.

The Irish Proust is now in production @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
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Coming to (some) good bookshops this October.

#MarcelProust #SamuelBeckett #OscarWilde #ElizabethBowen #MaryDevenportO'Neill #JohnMcGahern #BrendanBehan

What about a labour-themed film set in (heavily unionized) Las Vegas?

"Knowledge Economy"

www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...

I wheeled her around the garden and we talked about the splendours and miseries of her past. She borrowed my (very powerful) vape, which typically triggers an uncontrollable cough among the uninitiated. Marianne puffed away insouciantly. I shall miss her.

The show was a kind of conversational musical essay whose artless authenticity mesmerized the audience.

I knew Marianne since childhood and last saw her two and half years ago in a nursing home for retired thespians outside London. She was lonely but phlegmatic. 3/

The last time I saw her play was at the Olympia in Paris in 2014. She had recently broken her coccyx and performed with the aid of a walking stick (often sitting in an armchair). “Sister Morphine” was prefaced by the observation that she was utterly sick of morphine after weeks in hospital. 2/

Marianne Faithfull was the last heroine of Sixties subversion. She remained loyal to Baudelairean bohemianism (where others settled into temperature-controlled environments). On lui a donné sa boue et elle en a fait de l’or. 1/

I wrote about how Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Apollinaire, and Proust wrestled with the rise of the press for @aeon.co, concluding with a call to reimagine the codex for the digital era. The essay draws on my recent book for @livunipress.bsky.social, Hustlers in the Ivory Tower:
aeon.co/essays/the-f...