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“No more than Madame Bovary is Flaubert.”
“Why is it then I’d bet my life that this is all autofic-tion?”
“Why not docufiction perhaps? Let’s get serious. There may be autobiographical elements in my book here and there, the only difference being that they could also belong to millions of my fellowmen. What-ever, on the other hand, alludes to me has been merci-
39 Erga omnes is a Latin phrase meaning “towards all”.
Take it out, it’s not funny anymore. Even Koulis, the opposition leader said it the other day in Parliament.
Have her asking why he keeps choosing female names starting with L. And Babis explaining that the L reminds him of flirtatious breasts and sultry lips.
- Enough already with this whole Bovary and Flaubert thing; it’s turned into such a cliché as Proust’s madeleine.
- I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but it’s the journalist asking, not I, Babis, I mean to say.
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lessly expelled from Apostolis.”
“As long, of course, as he is middle-aged, with a bit of a bald patch and, albeit an athletic type, a bit of a beer belly, is an incurable ladies’ man even though he can never score a date not even in his dreams, and – I quote – he ‘decided on a whim, where his essays barely ever got a passing grade, to start writing all of a sudden.’ Who are you kidding?”
“You are sadly deluded if you think me as simplistic as Apostolis. And, in any case, in the last few years, even the dogs in the streets have started to write.”
“Why choose anonymity then?”
“I refer you, in order to cut to the chase, to page 94 of my book.”
“Pass. If not roman à clef40, I will then assume, since it contains, as you say, approximately twenty-five short stories, that it is essentially a roman à tiroirs41, as the French would say?”
“Assume away, hence how it is read is key, as the Brits would say.”
40 A novel with intense autobiographical elements, where simply the naming convention is changed.
41 A novel where some interjecting chapters having no imme-diate connection to the main plot.
I sincerely wonder if and to what extent ‘the dogs in the streets’ still stands in 2019.
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