Pierre Desproges was a craftsman of the verb: for five minutes of his verve, he spent hours in the transcendence of writing. He was a crazy lover of grammar and beautiful writing. The sense of shortcuts, the devastating irony, the swear ...See morePierre Desproges was a craftsman of the verb: for five minutes of his verve, he spent hours in the transcendence of writing. He was a crazy lover of grammar and beautiful writing. The sense of shortcuts, the devastating irony, the swear words attached to a distinguished vocabulary made his charm. 30 years after his death, a taboo-breaker, a franchisor of the yellow line, a collector of provocations and an adept of insolence, Pierre Desproges knows no absence.
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