Petit Eloge D Un Solitaire {ReadingNotes}

Petit eloge d'un solitaire by Richard Millet - ISBN 9782070337798 - Folio 2007

Motivation

Short, with a very tempting title and a back cover promoting uniqueness.

Pre-reading model

Draw a schema (using PmGraphViz or another solution) of the situation of the area in the studied domain before having read the book.

Reading

• "German Millet etant un de ces etres, si incomprehensible aujourd'hui, qui ont le gout de la solitude : une solitude qui etait plus un accomplissement que de la misanthropie ou la contestation de l'ordre social qu'elle est devenue dans une societe qui a fait du vivre-ensemble, de la transparence, du festif, de la convivialite, une des figures de la democratie ou les solitaires sont suspects aux vertueux hedonistes du nouvel ordre moral. Mais s'il aimait autant la solitude, c'etait qu'il pouvait ainsi laisser libre cours a ce qu'il faut bien appeler son originalite ou ses bizarreries." (p60)
  • also back cover of the book
• "Les vies sont des legendes en quete de bouches." (p87)
  • cf I Am A Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter
• "[...] sang que je perpetue et que je prefere au mot de genes, parce qu'il dit bien mieux la fatalite, la ressemblance, l'impossible, le drame, la transmission, la parole muee en chair, le fait meme de vivre." (p90)
  • last sentence of the book

See also

• Walden by Henry David Thoreau
• Hermitary resources and reflections on hermits and solitude

Overall remarks and questions

• overall it is still a praise but not a theoretical one, more of a very stylish life story.
• family links are important but tend to, maybe, make the book a bit more complex
• sentences are rather long, more than a page per sentence in the first chapter! This is not really a problem later on but quite surprising still.

Synthesis

So in the end, it was about X and was based on Y.

Critics

Point A, B and C are debatable because of e, f and j.

Vocabulary

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Post-reading model

Draw a schema (using PmGraphViz or another solution) of the situation of the area in the studied domain after having read the book. Link it to the pre-reading model and align the two to help easy comparison.

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