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...OLIVIER POIVRE D'ARVOR: Living Proof of a Vibrant Culture Culture of Healthy Debate: Some opinions on the state of French arts...
...start the new year, here's an ardent wish: that you will offer us as often as possible a present as big as this magnificent cover of TIME, with its title for a first-class burial: "The Death of French Culture." "Death," you said, not even "decline," a word with which we are quite familiar. "Death" is a strong word...
...course, I could peevishly express disappointment that so few correspondents engaged with Morrison's argument that "a new infusion of energy from the margins" is revivifying French culture; I could suggest that those who rushed to condemn us might protest too much. But it's the season of goodwill, so we're delighted to publish the accompanying letter by Olivier Poivre d'Arvor, director of CulturesFrance, together with a selection of other comments on our story. May the debate continue...
...true that, over the past few years, for those who do not speak our language, it has been the silent artists of French culture who have hit the headlines: the mime artist Marcel Marceau, Jacques Cousteau, our choreographers, our circus acts. They represent our quiet resistance to the hubbub of the world. But we would still like to impress you, modestly, in the French style; to make ourselves heard, shout a bit, throw a few tantrums. This isn't easy when, with your powerful American cultural industries, your worldwide machinery for projecting image, sound, software, desires, you have been...
...idea - a bit cruel since you already have so many monopolies and such a vast empire - of headlining the death of French culture. Of course it's an exaggeration, as you know. Imagine if a French weekly had marked the death of the great writer Norman Mailer with a cover story entitled "The Death of American Culture...