CHARLES DANTZIG Inventaire de la basse période (Grasset)
Will the tide rise again, or will tyranny drag us under?
The Western world is living through a moment that is both pitiful and threatening.
Charles Dantzig calls it the Low Period. Basse, as in low tide; période, because things haven't yet lasted long enough to qualify as an epoch. We thought the barbarians were outside. What
optimism. They are inside, and at work. The most icy reaction is in power in many countries, often driven by an alliance between billionaires and a section of the electorate they have enraged. This Inventory sets out the accumulation of old and recent facts which, combined with the will of conspirators in broad daylight, have become causes: institutionalized insult, the abandonment of law in favor of force..
Will the tide rise again, or will tyranny drag us under?
The Western world is living through a moment that is both pitiful and threatening.
Charles Dantzig calls it the Low Period. Basse, as in low tide; période, because things haven't yet lasted long enough to qualify as an epoch. We thought the barbarians were outside. What
optimism. They are inside, and at work. The most icy reaction is in power in many countries, often driven by an alliance between billionaires and a section of the electorate they have enraged. This Inventory sets out the accumulation of old and recent facts which, combined with the will of conspirators in broad daylight, have become causes: institutionalized insult, the abandonment of law in favor of force..
