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Maxzor

maxzor@books.maxzor.eu

Joined 2 years, 7 months ago

Hello, I am experimenting with running a micro bookwyrm instance, to journal the books that I read.

I live in France near Paris, and work as an IT guy for IPCC. I read rather slowly, mostly in French, essays and novels, sometimes poetry or comics. I have this setup where I read french books and review them here in English.

I am moving from a taste in politics towards a growing interest in philosophy, science remains a constant. Also Maxzor on Mastodon.

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Books read in 2024 (View all 18)

Amélie Nothomb: Stupeur Et Tremblements (Paperback, French language, 2001, Le livre de poche)
Kamel Daoud: Houris (Paperback, French language, 2024, Gallimard)
Virginie Despentes: Vernon Subutex 1 (Paperback, French language, 2016, Le livre de poche)

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Rachel Carson: The Sea Around Us (Paperback, 2018, Oxford University Press)
Carlo Ginzburg: Dialogue avec Marc Bloch (Paperback, French language, 2025, Presses Universitaires de Lyon)
Luis Sepúlveda: Le vieux qui lisait des romans d'amour (Paperback, French language, 1995, Points)

Currently Reading

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Les rêveries du promeneur solitaire (Paperback, French language, 2012, Flammarion)

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commented on Un démocrate by Julie Timmerman

Julie Timmerman, Stéphane Resche, Marie-Astrid Bailly-Maître: Un démocrate (Paperback, CF)

"Le réel n'existe pas. Seuls existent les événements sur lesquels on communique."

Les femmes qui …

A play about public relations in the twentieth century, a story of communication in democracies, a tale on the power of representations.

Le Bon's The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind; Lippmann's Public Opinion, and Bernays's Propaganda I still have to figure out this quote from Foucault, how "hermeneutics and semiology are two fierce enemies".

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commented on Justine et autres romans by Marquis de Sade (Bibliothèque de la Pléiade)

Marquis de Sade: Justine et autres romans (Hardcover, French language, 2014, Gallimard)

Ses textes ont longtemps été considérés comme des documents à réserver aux médecins, aux juristes …

I read only Justine.

The main question is if it is worth following virtue in one's life, given that providence can favour a sinful conduct better.

I found that the philosophical pages and the repetitive systems were like rather fun labyrinths were the reader had to learn how to refute the sophisms exposed.

But it was quite tedious. It seems to me on one hand that Choderlos de Laclos did better at painting libertinism, and on the other hand that Voltaire's Candide was more skillful at painting humans as (I oppose the thesis !) fundamentally evil.

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