Cyril Bennasar, the Man Who Says No

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Affranchi, by our friend Cyril Bennasar, is a jubilatory novel. The story of a man who refuses to submit to a society of servitudes, from the matriculation of the Urssaf to the immigrationist propaganda through the diktats of neofeminism. A rare and tasty freedom of tone and self-detrition. If any novel is a variation on his title or explanation, the first thing that Affranchi deserves is the direct, the last word heard in a polysemic way, as it…