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Frédéric Taddeï: In your new book, A French novel, for the first time, you want to describe such as you are and not as you would like to see you. Has the beginning of this admission been painful

Frédéric Beigbeder: What was painful, was to visit the cachots Parisian, dilapidated, wetland, Skunk and frozen. I didn't to such treatment in the country of human rights. The party is over when she is punished in this way. I can assure you that writing a book is much less painful to be placed in custody.

F.T.: In this autobiographical book, very introspective, you don't talk about never money. To believe that you have never won... Do you want us to believe that this is not important

F.B.: It is wrong, my dear Frédéric, you read too quickly! A French novel about the ruin of the family Beigbeder, which was one of the richest in Pau, and how my father, my brother and I have been forced to work to restore the comfort that we had lost.

F.T.: What is the received cheque which you are most proud The one you ashamed

F.B.: Young & Rubicam severance gave me much pleasure because I had appeal me to appeal to the money to obtain (after the publication of 99 francs I have been laid off for serious misconduct). The cheque that makes me ashamed The Communist Party. His low score did not allow him to be paid and it had, nevertheless, to pay my advice in 2002 (I had asked to not be paid but required by the Act).

F.T.: You write: "it is the story of a new humanity, or how monarchist Catholics have become globalized capitalists", can you be more explicit Criticism or progress

F.B.: Neither criticism nor progress: this is a realization. In two generations, my family was Catholic monarchist tendency Action Française totally changed thinking and lifestyle. My country also. Many of the values of the traditional bourgeoisie of province appear today obsolete, but they had a sense in a time slower, deeper, which was probably unfair and hypocritical.

F.T.: Why have titled your French novel livreUn Why personal novel Nota That's so "French" in the life of Frédéric Beigbeder

F.B.: I wrote a novel that was going on in America (Windows on the world) in 2003 and another that took place in Russia (to rescue forgiveness) in 2007. I wanted to return home. I think that by telling my childhood in Neuilly, Guéthary and Pau, between 1965 and 1980, but also referring to the figure of my parents and grandparents, I obviously tells my country, its wars, its contradictions, his aspirations, his disappointments, and how the France tried to forget his defeat in 1940 rushing in the cozy arm of the consumer society.

F.T.: Since the success de99 francs, more than a writer, you became a character. It is this character who, at the beginning of your book, finds himself in custody for sniffé a line of cocaine on a car bonnet, in the mode box. Is this transformation made knowingly Your character create it obligations

F.B.: Yes, this is one of the subjects of the book: begins the novel, which stops the fiction The Attorney that keeps me in custody wants to author Frédéric or its Octave hero I myself am when I answer your question or am I still ask the provocative writer The limit is very difficult to discern, especially when it grew like me in a very polished family. It is possible that I've wanted to be loved, become the beI-thought-qu'on-expected-that-I-am. What is, we are agreed, the amok.

F.T.: As a writer, how you think the economic crisis

F.B.: Without affectation, I am part of the novelists who has long described the crisis that was emerging on the horizon. 99 francs shows the deviations of the capitalist system, the creation of unnecessary needs, the excesses of advertising, the injustices and imbalances of globalization. In Windows on the World, two traders speak of hedge funds and junks bonds just before an aircraft is under their feet. To help pardon mocked the new Russia, which is passed to one totalitarianism to another, from the collectivist barbarity to wild liberalism, in three years. This crisis, the Novelists have seen it coming: Tom Wolfe in the bonfire of the vanities, Bret Easton Ellis in American Psycho... If ever the literature is of use, is to allow us to guess the future. And the advantage is that, generally, it is more fun, better written, a test of economic policy.