{"id":637,"date":"2024-07-12T15:14:14","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T13:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pluh2.wordpress.com\/?page_id=637"},"modified":"2026-02-25T09:46:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T09:46:31","slug":"la-fin-du-monde-naurait-pas-eu-lieu","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pluh.org\/index.php\/la-fin-du-monde-naurait-pas-eu-lieu\/","title":{"rendered":"La fin du monde n\u2019aurait pas eu lieu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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\u201cA gritty anti-novel, a veritable comedy festival of incorrect thoughts.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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About the Book<\/summary>\n
Original Title<\/strong><\/td>Le fin du monde n’aurait pas eu lieu<\/td><\/tr>
First Published<\/strong><\/td>2017<\/td><\/tr>
Publisher<\/strong><\/td>Allia, Paris Globator,<\/td><\/tr>
Czech Title<\/strong><\/td>Konec sv\u011bta se pr\u00fd nekonal<\/td><\/tr>
Publisher<\/strong><\/td>Paseka, Torst , Prague<\/td><\/tr>
Released<\/strong><\/td>2018<\/td><\/tr>
Pages<\/strong><\/td>184<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n
Rights Sold<\/summary>\n
Italy<\/strong><\/td>Quodlibet – Macerata<\/td><\/tr>
USA<\/strong><\/td>Dalkey Archive – Chicago<\/td><\/tr>
Portugal<\/strong><\/td>Antigona – Lisboa<\/td><\/tr>
North Macedonia <\/strong><\/td>Slavika Libris – Skopje<\/td><\/tr>
Greece <\/strong><\/td>World Books – Athens<\/td><\/tr>
German<\/strong>y<\/td>edition.fotoTAPETA – Berlin<\/td><\/tr>
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In 2017, Ou\u0159edn\u00edk’s seventh title was published by Parisian publishing house \u00c9ditions Allia, also his first book written directly in French: La fin du monde n’aurait pas eu lieu<\/em>. Both thematically and stylistically, it can be considered a sequel to Europeana<\/em>. Ostensibly, this new book revolves around the life and thoughts of Gaspard Boisvert, ex-advisor to the dumbest US president of all time and advertising executive for the Pernod-Ricard company. Boisvert is obsessed with the end of the world, which may have already happened without us noticing, at least the – wafer-thin – plot suggests. But although at times it presents itself as a realistic novel, it soon becomes clear that the author is taking a run at all novel conventions. This book also deals with the limits of democracy, Adolf Hitler’s missing testicle, the comical nature of politically-correct language, religions, vegetarianism, Viagra and a whole lot more. Or is the author just kidding his reader?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In any case, La fin du monde n’aurait pas eu lieu<\/em> is a fascinating, highly topical reading experience – and once again it all sounds curiously detached, mildly cynical and irresistibly funny. The book contains around 25,000 words, is divided into 111 chapters and 170 pages, has 12 diagrams or charts and one photograph, and has translations in several languages. In 2019 it made it through to the shortlist of the International Jan Michalski Prize for Literature.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cHis \u2018Europeana. Une br\u00e8ve histoire du XXe si\u00e8cle\u2019 (Allia, 2004), still widely read today, already took the form of an ironic and critical assessment of the most recent human adventures. He does it again, with the same brio and a very sure sense of effect. We see him patiently sharpening his arrows, bending his bow – and suddenly the line goes off and into the heart of the target. Jarry, Beckett, Michaux and Queneau, the four authors he has translated, mark out his own writing territory<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this book, the opposite is true. Has the author really written a farce, a satire? Yes, but no. Because he\u2019s not joking.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Le Monde<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cFrom these premises, Ou\u0159edn\u00edk brilliantly links examples taken from the Bible and other myths, fanciful statistics, caf\u00e9 du commerce dialogue and lame jokes. He compares the respective evils of Prozac and Viagra or the performances of the bloodthirsty dictators of the twentieth century.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing escapes him about the pitfalls of language: worn-out stereotypes and the new ones that denounce them, tics and fashions. The F\u00fchrer\u2019s surname gives rise to onomastic digressions: if he had borne the name of his progenitor, Schicklgruber, \u201che who digs a gutter to drain the manure\u201d, would he have had the same charismatic destiny? Even if, as the publisher suggests, it\u2019s not out of the question that we\u2019re simply being taken for a ride, it\u2019s all so delightful that we\u2019re delighted.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Le Temps<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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La fine del mondo sembra non sia arrivata<\/summary>\n

Quodlibet, Macerata, 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Translated by Andrea Libero Carbone<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n

The End of the World Might Not Have Taken Place<\/summary>\n

Dalkey Archive, Chicago, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Translated by Alexander Hertich<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n

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Slavika Libris, Skopje, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Translated by Jasminka Delova-Siljanova<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n

O fim do mundo n\u00e3o ter\u00e1 acontecido<\/summary>\n

Antigona, Lisbon, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Translated by J\u00falio Henriques<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n

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Wordbooks. Athens, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Translated by Andriana Chondrogiannis.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n

Das Ende der Welt d\u00fcrfte nicht stattgefunden haben<\/summary>\n

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