Word: flore
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...only more intense. It really is just confirmation of what I thought as a young person: an existential approach to human life, that's my approach. Existentialism isn't as in vogue in Paris as it used to be, but I still go to Café de Flore and sit there and think of Sartre. That still informs my philosophy of life. What I was feeling when I was making The Fly has only been confirmed by life as it goes on. Which is another reason why I'm able to take it up in another form, I suppose...
...novel) movement. Many of today's most critically revered French novelists write spare, elegant fiction that doesn't travel well. Others practice what the French call autofiction - thinly veiled memoirs that make no bones about being conceived in deep self-absorption. Christine Angot received the 2006 Prix de Flore for her latest work, Rendez-vous, an exhaustively introspective dissection of her love affairs. One of the few contemporary French writers widely published abroad, Michel Houellebecq, is known chiefly for misogyny, misanthropy and an obsession with sex. "In America, a writer wants to work hard and be successful," says Fran...
...please, let's not blame the machines, either. French and Italian cafes ditched the handmade espresso years ago for automation and don't seem to have suffered ennui because of it. You think Café Flore in Paris would lose its charm because it served automated café au lait? Je pense que no friggin' way. Sit down in Starbucks and enjoy a cup and some conversation? Sure, if you can manage to snag a seat from the WiFi squatters who have set up an office for the price of a latte. (Here's a suggestion: Set up joint outlets...