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Jean-Baptiste Botul
Jean-Baptiste Botul is a fictional French philosopher created in 1995 by the journalist Frédéric Pagès and other members of a group calling itself the Association of the Friends of Jean-Baptiste Botul. Originating as a literary hoax, the names of both Botul and his philosophy of ''botulism'' derive from botulism, an illness caused by the bacterium '' Clostridium botulinum''. References to Botul were first made in publications by members of the association and later turned up in texts by writers who were not party to the hoax and thought Botul was a real person, notably the French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy. There is now an annual Botul Prize awarded for a book that mentions Botul. History The hoax began in 1995, when Frédéric Pagès, a former professor of philosophy and a journalist for the satirical weekly newspaper '' Le Canard enchaîné'' (The Chained Duck), invented Jean-Baptiste Botul and his chief work, entitled ''The Sexual Life of Immanuel Kant''. The general ide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frédéric Pagès
Frédéric Pagès (; born 1950) is a French journalist noted for his work with the satirical weekly, ''Le Canard enchaîné''. Pagès studied philosophy at University and worked as a high school teacher until 1985. At ''Le Canard enchaîné'', his humorous columns included ''Le Journal de Xavière T'', a spoof diary of Xavière Tiberi, the wife of Jean Tiberi, then mayor of Paris, and, from December 2007, ''Le Journal de Carla B'', a spoof diary of Carla Bruni, wife of President Nicolas Sarkozy. The last of these was the subject of controversy when Karl Laske and Laurent Valdiguié published a book ''Vrai Canard'', which alleged that the spoof diary was written by Pierre Charon, a political advisor to the French government, and used to pass on political messages. The editor of ''Le Canard enchaîné'', Michel Gaillard, quickly debunked this claim by naming Frédéric Pagès as the writer. "Botulism" Pagès has written two books of spoof philosophy under the name of a fictiona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
