"Otherwise, this humble narrative genre [the FAIT DIVERS] obeys the
same laws that make literature evolve with our vision of the world. It
used to be that insignificant FAITS DIVERS were referred to as 'dogs hit
by cars.' Television journalists now call them 'trash cans on fire.' I
sense in this transition from the dog to the trash can, from the living
to the inanimate, a depersonalization typical of our times."
Roger Grenier, Palace of Books (Alice Kaplan trans.)
