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The Little Girl and The Cigarette

Description

"Not only are we no longer capable of seeing the tragedies that have befallen us, we are incapable even of registering our own incapacity to do so . . . [but] Duteurtre sees, and records all that he sees."-Milan Kundera

"A joy to read, as much as it is alarming."-Le Monde

In the over-legislated world of this outrageous comedy, a death row inmate becomes a darling of the media-and the tobacco conglomerates-after he demands his right to a final cigarette in a smoke-free prison.

Meanwhile, a little girl accuses a petty municipal bureaucrat of sexual perversion when she catches him sneaking a cigarette. Incredulously, he realizes that in this world where children are not just kings, but tyrants, a cigarette could lead him to the electric chair.

At the cutting edge of European fiction, young, hip French author Benoît Duteurtre creates a world disconcertingly close to our own-yet wildly askew-in this daring and antic comedy.

Reviews

Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-01-27
Summary: "Well done satire, with some dark comedy."

"I am not victim of a conspiracy, but of the natural accumulation of stupidity."

And with that that thought our misanthropic protagonist realizes his fate. This is a good book and although fiction, could easily happen in today's political environment. Might make a good, smart, satirical - dark comedy movie if you can find someone with skills to write a clever adaptation.

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2007-10-02
Summary: "nicely done"

very entertaining book. dark humour and wit, a nice length for a book, not one of those harry potter dictionary types thank god. not your feel good story but definitely worth a read.

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Rating: 2 / 5
Date: 2007-04-23
Summary: "Satire Sans Teeth"

Although this author of ten novels is apparently "an anarchic and controversial figure" in his native France, and admired by intelligentsia from Samuel Beckett to Milan Kundara to Guy Debord, Duteurtre has yet to appear in English until now. Unfortunately, it's a very thin introduction, as the story wades into the quicksand of social satire, only to be quickly bogged down by its own heavy-handedness.

Set in a nameless contemporary Western city combining elements of Europe with elements of the U.S., the story's two main threads are told in alternating chapters. The first concerns a death-row inmate whose last request is to smoke a cigarette. This throws the legal system into a quandary, since smoking is forbidden in prison, but prisoners' last wishes must be followed. Wackiness ensues, as various contingents line up on either side of the issue, and the case is sent to the
Supreme Court (which isn't the slightest bit interested in reviewing the flimsy case that actually put the man on death row). This plotline is neither particular funny or insightful or scathing, or...much of anything.

It's the second plotline that takes up the bulk of the book and provides slightly more for the reader to chew on. In it, a middle-aged civil servant wants nothing more from life that to be left in piece to enjoy the epicurean idyll: a quiet life with his dog, common-law wife, good food, good films, good books, and a smoke every now and then. Strict anti-smoking policies at work, as well as the conversion of some of his workplace into a daycare facility, combine in an unfortunate event which results in his being falsely accused of pedophilia. Here, the novel's central theme comes to the fore: the notion that the rise of the over-regulated nanny-state and the social primacy given to children (based on the psychological desire to return to carefree childhood) are combining to strip away the rights of adults while simultaneously granting children the run of society.

This is all spun out in a rather clumsy attempt at satirizing Kafkaesque bureaucratic fascism, which condemns the man based on his refusal to take an interest in children. There's more than a little post-9/11 commentary going on here, especially in a scene in which a police investigator tells the man that even if he hasn't done anything yet, his attitude is a clear sign that he might, and so he should be locked away or executed as a preemptive measure. The book's ultimate thesis becomes explicit on 146, where the civil servant declares "it's the adult man, the forty or fifty-year-old man who needs the most support, because of the way everyone scorns him." The unspoken addition to that is "white", and American readers will very quickly recall the great "angry white male" demographic of the mid-1990s. What's not particularly clear is whether Duteurtre is satirizing this sentiment or endorsing it -- interpretation becomes particularly tricksy when one realizes that Duteurtre is himself the very age of his protagonist.

Satire is among the hardest genres to pull off effectively, and it's never realized in any palpable fashion in the book's two main plots. Oddly enough, it does emerge is in a late subplot about an terrorist group which launches its own internet-streamed reality show in which a group of Western hostages competes in a kind of "Survivor" meets "American Idol" contest called "A Martyr Idol." This is easily the most scathing and intelligent part of the book, as the global public gets caught up in the media event, voting by cell phone for the hostage closest to themselves -- with the monthly loser literally losing their head. If the rest of the book was as provocative as this it would be a winner, but alas, far too much of it is pedestrian fare.

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2007-03-09
Summary: "Modern-Day Cult of the Child Is Satirized"

In an arch, assured style, Duteurtre alternates two plots, one of a death-row prisoner putting a cog in the legal system by demanding his right to a final cigarette before his execution and an adult intellectual who feels at odds in a world where children are worshipped as gods. Duteurtre uses these two plots as vehicles for his real agenda: to satirize modern day's love of political correctness, utopian-visioned do-gooders, absurd legalism, and a society so bereft of ideals and so soggy-brained that its only "religion" is the adoration of the child, as a sort of symbol of society's replenishment and renewal. The satire is never forced or obvious, as too many books that attempt humor are guilty of. Instead, the author effortlessly weaves his satirical themes into his narrative so that the book mirrors our modern day absurdities with crystal clear vision and gives us a facile story at once. As this is the first book of many to be translated into English, I must either learn French or wait eagerly for Duteurtre's other books to be translated.

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Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2007-03-08
Summary: ""The Children Are Running The Asylum""

Although this satirical tale is occasionally forced or given to swiping at too easy targets, in its central thrust it's undeniably successful. Using a deadpan satiric approach, Duteurtre ponders the last two remaining sins in our post-industrial, developed world. Here, where good health is the primary duty of life and children have replaced the gods, cigarette smoking has become one of the greatest evils. In first place, though, is child molestation, whether real or just merely alleged. In a society which worships the child, and therefore turns out to be pretty much run by children, the charge of such abuse becomes itself indistinguishable from the deed and is thought equally deserving of the ultimate punishment. It is the author's winning satirical insight that a contemporary moppet might be smart enough to make a false accusation against an adult out of mere vengefulness but be believed as an honest reporter of dire events. What other conclusion could one expect from ignorant grownups clinging tenaciously to a perverse belief in the natural goodness of children?