Tome III, 2007-2009 - Brèves de comptoir

They are all there, faithful, disconcerting, funny, poetic, disarming - captured on the fly by an imperturbable Jean-Marie Gourio who continues day after day to haunt these bistros that were thought to be condemned but that resist trends. Through the surreal kaleidoscope of this third volume of "Brèves de comptoir" in the present collection, the collective unconscious of a public commenting on its own history emerges: politics, sciences, customs, news, events of all kinds. The author knows how to restore the popular language of his time like no one else. Spontaneous, slangy, vulgar, scatological, tender, cruel, or poetic language. A language too often excluded from the contemporary literary field, despite its permanence in a tradition ranging from Rabelais and Villon to Queneau, Prévert, or Céline. As long as there is a counter and a slightly tipsy man clinging to his glass, Jean-Marie Gourio will be by his side, armed with his pencil and one of those little Rhodia notebooks on which he has already meticulously noted over 50,000 "briefs". Sold in more than 60,000 copies, the "Bouquins" box set bringing together the first two volumes of "Brèves de comptoir" thrilled its readers, who will find here with joy a new harvest. Former editor-in-chief of Charlie Hebdo, Jean-Marie Gourio is mainly famous for his "Brèves de comptoir," bestsellers sold in more than a million copies.