The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated lo...neliness, and a sense of local and global distress. The square, overpopulation, the bourgeois, the bomb and the cocktail party are variously identified as sources of the grudge. There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is... already in place.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Women who are devoted to causes, such as overpopulation and the underprivileged [sic], are much less interested in fashion than, l...et's say, those who lunch at La Grenouille and Le Cirque.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »