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"I never have time to disgorge even a twentieth of what I accumulate — and later, it will be too late." It was to answer this urgency that Alexandre Vialatte (1901–1971) created a literary genre of his own: the chronique.
From the age of twenty until his death, he wrote hundreds of them for La Revue rhénane, Le Crapouillot, L'Intransigeant, Le Moniteur, L'Époque, La Nouvelle Revue française, Marie-Claire, Le Journal de l'Est, Le Petit Dauphinois and for La Montagne. This Auvergne daily gave him a weekly column and complete freedom to write about everything — except politics.
For eighteen years, every Sunday evening, Vialatte delivered his copy to the mail car of the 11:15 pm train. He missed the appointment only two or three times. What did he write about? Everything and nothing. One week a novel, the next a play or a poetry collection; he evokes a film, pokes fun at a “first truth,” deepens a cliché, comments on a proverb. The chronique is the work of a wanderer, a flâneur, a philosopher… “A chronique,” Alexandre Vialatte said, “should grow like grass in the cracks of a wall, in the stones of the timetable.” Pierre Vialatte, in his own way, returns lost time to us. He belongs to the family of Saint-Simon and Proust.
Number of pages: 1140
Dimensions: 13.30 x 20.00 x 3.20 cm
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