MP for the hard-left France Unbowed (LFI) party Francois Ruffin said the minister should not have 'a minute, an hour, a week of his time to devote to writing a book' when the French are experiencing 'big worries about inflation'. It describes Oskar having sex with a woman named as Julia in excitedly erotic and also deeply explicit terms. It is devoted to the legendary pianist Vladimir Horowitz, through the story of two brothers, Franz and Oskar Wertheimer, who travel to Cuba to attend one of his concerts and whose lives are then turned upside down.īut it is one single page of the novel, widely shared and the target of mockery on social media, that has taken all the attention. He also faces to pressure to help the French deal with the rising cost of living due to surges in fuel prices and Russia's invasion of Ukraine.īut 'American Fugue' inhabits a wholly different world. Le Maire has been on the front line of defending Macron's controversial pension reform which has sparked months of sometimes violent protests but the government says is necessary to balance the books. 'Fugue americaine' ('American Fugue') by Finance and Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire, 54, is no less than the 13th book by the politician who has held his post since Macron came to power in 2017. Socrates says despite Thrasymachus 's view, the goal of the city is not to make one group happy at the expense of another. PARIS - A new novel by French President Emmanuel Macron's heavyweight finance minister, containing one breathlessly erotic passage that has gone viral, has forced the government to explain how he finds the time for such penmanship in a period of economic trouble. Book 5 Themes and Colors Key Summary Analysis Adeimantus says the guardians' simple lifestyle won't make them happy, given the luxuries enjoyed by rulers elsewhere.

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