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"What harm is there in finding beautiful what is beautiful..."

This is the question asked by Monsieur Chaivagne, a security guard at the Musée du Louvre with an impeccable suit and an almost permanent smile, who couldn't care less about the rather sardonic looks of his colleagues and finds plenty of excuses for the slightly naive, curious, impatient, or clumsy little world of tourists.

It is also all the nobility of this man linked to the Venus de Milo by a secret dialogue.

The story could be almost simple, were it not for the author, who enjoys multiplying approaches and viewpoints, tilting the meaning of a sentence with a single word, and holding us in suspense by granting us four periods in eighteen pages...

Winner of the 2025 Nobel Prize, László Krasznahorkai is a Hungarian author little known to us, in whom complete trust should not be placed. He is a magician...

It is up to us to recreate our pleasure in reading him by outsmarting his clever traps without losing their delightful and human resonance. It is up to us to share Chaivagne's so humbly despairing and proud singularity.