Critics call Marcela Iacub's book on her affair a true objet d'art. France likes to justify moral transgressions in the name of art
By Agnès Poirier, guardian.co.uk, 22 Feb. 2013

Another day, another scandal related to Dominique Strauss-Kahn. This time, Paris is seething with the expertly-orchestrated news that law philosopher Marcela Iacub has written a book on her seven-month fling with Dominique Strauss-Kahn. "Une liaison dangereuse", as Libération stated it today on its cover. The book is called Belle et Bête (Beauty and Beast) and hits the bookstands on Wednesday. Iacub has given one and unique interview in this week's Nouvel Observateur. She says that she will not comment any further.

A handful of reviewers invoked Kafka's Metamorphosis as a comparison, as well as the style and prose of Michel Foucault, Michel Houellebecq and Catherine Millet. They all insist that Iacub's book is far from being yet another voyeuristic essay on the personal travails of a celebrity, but is a true objet d'art, literature in its most noble sense. Iacub, a distinguished law philosopher and columnist [....]