![]() ![]() “If there were only politics – without the freedom that literary and romantic creation gives – politics would not be enough,” he said in an interview last week. “It is about music, my passion for music,” Le Maire insisted of the novel, whose central character is a piano virtuoso.įor France’s finance chief, politics and prose go hand in hand. “10 lines on 480 pages – you should read the book,” he said Wednesday to French broadcaster France Info, his exasperation evident at being questioned on the book’s most erotic scene a week after its publication. Le Maire’s fourth book in five years, the release of “Fugue Americaine” saw the minister face questions about his moonlighting as a writer. The offending passage has thrown a harsh light back on the storied history of French politicians’ flirtations with literary careers. His work “Fugue Americaine” – which includes a scene with an unforgettable phrase about an anus – has brought mockery, even in France, where a politician writing erotica is nothing new. But it’s not the country’s downgraded credit rating, nor the government’s hated retirement age hike that’s got people talking. France’s finance minister is in the spotlight. ![]()
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