What in the world has happened to the culture of France? If you enter a room almost anywhere in the West when two or three of the arterati are gathered together and ask them to name interesting young artists, no one will mention anyone French. The same goes for literature and drama. In music there is the octogenarian Boulez and a few disciples and, er, c’est
Grey Gowrie
The sensuous recluse
issue 12 March 2005
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