Detailed sex scene in novel recently published French Economy Minister forced the government to face new accusations that it is indifferent to the problems of citizens. Sexual descriptions in the novel”american fugue» (American Fugue) from Brino Le Merangered opposition politicians and sparked anti-government slogans and even protests as the government tries to contain the political crisis after the pension threshold was raised.

The book is not the first written by the minister. This is a fictional reference to the famous pianist Vladimir Horowitz and tells the story of two brothers who travel to Cuba to attend his concert. Along the way, one of the two brothers falls in love with a girl named Julia. “She threw herself on the bed and showed me her dark anus,” Oscar says in the book. Are you coming, Oscar? I have never been so wet and open, ”the girl invites him.

A few days later, the French edition of the Huffington Post wrote: “Brino Le Maire wrote about the anus, and none of us were ready for it,” and this week an article in the left-wing newspaper Liberation ironically calculated that Le Maire had published more than his controversial writer and personal friend Michel Houellebecq.

The novel was published hours before ratings agency Fitch downgraded the country’s credit rating last week, sparking criticism from the left that writing the novel had distracted Le Maire from the economy and inflation. Criticism first began on social media, and the baton was taken over by popular French comedians such as Sophia Aram, who read the love scene live on one of the country’s biggest radio stations, accompanying the reading with comments about the French economy “on the rise.” knees”.

The minister responded to the criticism by writing on social media, “Many of you ask me how I find time to write while I’m a minister”, explaining that this is his way of finding “inner balance” in his life. “Some do gardening, others go hiking, I write,” he said, later explaining to French television that he wrote on vacation, on weekends and after waking up at 5 am.