Fond of literature, they write reading notes as a … – The Express

Three lines -no more – to write a leaflet to read. This is the challenge that launched enthusiasts of literature on the page Facebook “Improbable bookshops, improbable libraries”, following the Penelopegate.

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Entitled “Price Penelope”, the operation is literary expressed surprise at the fact that the wife of French prime minister François Fillon, candidate of the right for the presidential election, would have received 5000 euros gross per month, from may 2012 to December 2013, the share of The Revue des deux Mondes. The all to publish in all and for all two reading notes devoted to the a, to William Marx (September 2012), and for the other, Lucien d’azay (October 2012).

Summarize masterpieces in three lines

This initiative to the caustic irony, marked by 20 Minutes started after the reception last Friday, a photo of this post-it: “War and Peace : ‘A big book with a lot of stuff going on. Signed Penelope Fillon’”. Very quickly, the photo is shared by the organizers on the page, which has more than 200,000 subscribers. With a deposit rather original.

“The note read us a lot of laughs. We have the habit of making literary games close to the Oulipo on our page. Then, we said that there was, also, a matter to get people to play who follow us,” said The Express, Gerard Picot, the group’s origin Facebook.

Already over 1000 reading logs sent

Since its publication, the post has been viewed more than 605 000 times and shared by more than 6000 people. Especially, welcomes Gérard Picot: “We have received more than 1,000 notices of readings, since Friday.”

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And in the face of some grumpy who have criticized this misuse of the case, who is also the director of the Festival du livre jeunesse de Villeurbanne, defends the project: “Some people consider that this is the policy, but it is full of literature! This exercise style is quite in the humour and the absurd own to the Oulipo. And that is for The Friend prodigious, The Bible, or the Belle of the Lord, we have answers amazing.”

The Express has selected for you some of the tastiest:

- gone with the wind (Mitchell): “They love, they hate, they love, they hate, and at the end everyone is crying.”

- père Goriot (Balzac): “Never a description of a room with a chest of drawers would have been too long…”

- In search of lost time (Proust): “Not bad, but the sentences are a little long. It is a little sad when he does not return it at the end.”

- The Odyssey (Homer): “A guy who was so fed up of his wife, Penelope (who on his side he weaves a shroud) that it leaves on a journey for twenty years.”

- Belle of the Lord (Cohen): “The love stories end badly in general’.”

- The happiness of the Ladies (Zola): “gave Me more desire to go shopping than read the book. I think in the end it will all be over, anyway.”

literary critics in the soul have until Friday to send a note on their book of their choice. The results will be available “early next week”, said Gerard Picot, who hopes to be able to do something – a collection, perhaps.