Le journal de Max, c’est :
- des textes bourrés d’humour,
- une critique pointue du monde de l'entreprise,
- des millions de visiteurs en quelques mois,
- un livre traduit en plusieurs langues,
- un auteur qui a réussi à préserver son anonymat. (lejournaldemax)
Courtesy of Babel Fish: "The newspaper of max, it is: stuffed texts of humour, a pointed criticism of the world of the company, million visitors in a few months, a book translated into several languages, an author who succeeded in preserving his anonymity."
The nifty thing about the current site is that you can click on a flag and get the info in English or French. The Korean page [Yes, I checked. Goodness gracious, aren't you at all curious?] had images of the book cover, front and back, plus two pages which for all I know could be part of the interior. Clicking on the Italian flag gives you another book cover image, "Buongiorno, Coglioni!" [Babel Fish translated that as "Buongiorno, Coglioni!"] You also get the back cover and two interior pages. [This time I'm sure of it.]
PRESENTATION DU LIVRE
Comme des millions de personnes, Max travaille derrière un bureau, brasse des papiers à la pelle... et s'ennuie. En septembre 2004, il ouvre un blog où chaque jour, brossant un tableau féroce de la vie d'entreprise, il décrit "les modalités de sa démission mentale". Trois millions de visites en quelques mois, le succès est phénoménal. Aujourd'hui, Max va plus loin en écrivant le premier roman-blog de l'histoire.PRESENTATION OF THE BOOK
Like million people, Max works behind an office, brews papers with the shovel... and is bored. In September 2004, it opens a blog where each day, painting a wild picture of the life of company, it describes "the methods of its mental resignation". Three million visits in a few months, success is phenomenal. Today, Max is further writing the first novel-blog of the history.
Tidbits from the site: the blog's focus is on how to avoid work, was mentioned in Le Monde, 10,000 visitors stopped by on weekends, "triple that on weekdays," and "one of France’s biggest publishers, Robert Laffont, offered a book deal."
This book reminds me of Jeremy Blachman's Anonymous Lawyer and I'd love to pursue that. But there's a limit to much cutting and pasting I choose to do with Babel Fish just to get a gist of what's going on with these foreign blooks. On the other hand, the writer in me is having a field day with the translations. Don't you just love "brewing papers with a shovel"?
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