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The Little Girl and the Cigarette
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The Little Girl and the Cigarette (edit title/settings)

by Benoît Duteurtre (Author) (edit contributors)

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&quot;Not only are we no longer capable of seeing the tragedies that have befallen us, we are incapable even of registering our own incapacity to do so . . . <but> Duteurtre sees, and records all that he sees.&quot;-Milan Kundera &quot;A joy to read, as much as it is... read more

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How would the world be if some things politically right would be obligatory? What if, for instance, smoking wouldn't be allowed not even to the sentenced to death, obliging smokers to lose themselves in surreptitiousness? Or, what if, from wanting to accord more rights to children we would... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

How would the world be if some things politically right would be obligatory? What if, for instance, smoking wouldn't be allowed not even to the sentenced to death, obliging smokers to lose themselves in surreptitiousness? Or, what if, from wanting to accord more rights to children we would only encourage them to terrorize us? Benoît Duteurtre sees this idiotic world in The Little Girl and the Cigarette, a novel that will surely scandalize the autochthon adepts of "what's right" and will give chills running down the spines of smokers and those that don't want to be manipulated by TV until "idiocracy"

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Each of the two texts seemed apodictic.. they only thing was that they were contradicting.

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  1. Benoît Duteurtre (Author)

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