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He wasn't just a rock star.
He was France's unfinished masculine dream.
Johnny Hallyday was never merely a singer. He was a national construction — built from American rock fantasies, postwar insecurity, erotic spectacle, and a desperate need for virility.
In Johnny — The Fragile Giant, Julien Peltier dismantles the monument.
From the abandoned child Jean-Philippe Smet to the stadium idol who performed strength while fearing collapse, this book exposes the emotional architecture behind the myth. The riots. The cinematic marriages. The addictions without disguise. The cancer turned into one final national ritual.
This is not nostalgia.
It is a forensic examination.
Peltier reveals:
• Why France had to invent its own rock god instead of importing one
• How masculinity became performance — then prison
• Why Johnny's body became a stage for national fantasy
• How a flawed man transformed, at death, into a secular saint
Unsparing yet intimate, intellectual yet electric, this book explores the machinery of fame, desire, and identity in modern France.
Because when a country buries its myth,
it buries something of itself.
Perfect for readers of cultural criticism, music history, gender studies, and psychological biography.
