truqueur

Le premier chapitre ("The Physiology of the Collector"), consacre aux physiologies et aux chroniques journalistiques, s'attache particulierement aux truqueurs et a la problematique du faux, qui questionne la capacite a dechiffrer le visible, de la part du collectionneur comme de l'ecrivain.

'Avant tout, tant pis pour les Yankees', as the critic Paul Eudel put it in his classic Trues et Truqueurs (1907).

Weitzmann's narrator eventually reneges on his condemnation of autofiction, after he acquaints himself with the nature of anti-Semitic revisionist literature, notably the work of Paul Rassinier, a 'critique litteraire frustre' whose books denounce Holocaust survivor testimony as counter-testimonial: the work of 'affabulateurs', 'faussaires', 'truqueurs' and 'mystificateurs' (pp.