French intellectuals have heaped scorn on a proposal by Nicolas Sarkozy to bestow the country’s greatest posthumous honour upon the writer Albert Camus, accusing the rightwing president of trying to cash in on the thinker’s popularity with little respect for his politics or personality.
薩科茲總統打算向法國作家卡繆獻上法國最偉大的死後殊榮，法國知識份子卻紛紛對此表達輕蔑不屑，並指控這位右翼總統只是企圖自這位備受尊敬的法國思想家身上謀利，絲毫不尊重卡繆的政治見解或個性。
Sarkozy said recently that he thought it would be an "extraordinary symbol" to transfer the Algerian-born author’s remains to the Pantheon, the resting place for heroes of France, on the 50th anniversary of his death in January.
薩科茲最近表示，他認為在明年一月卡繆逝世50週年紀念時，把這位出生在阿爾及利亞的作家遺骸移葬至法國歷代英雄長眠的先賢祠，會是一項「非凡象徵」。
But the idea of a rightwing leader often accused of authoritarian tendencies and anti-intellectualism celebrating the life of a man who made a career out of political resistance and literary endeavour has outraged many Camus experts.
但一位經常被指控有極權與反智主義傾向的右翼領袖，卻提出要紀念一位畢生因參與政治反抗活動和文學成就而聞名的文人的想法，反而激怒了許多卡繆專家。
They suspect Sarkozy is using a golden opportunity to bask in the reflected glory of a charismatic hero, whose ideas are being feted by the mainstream half a century after he died in a car crash.
他們懷疑薩科茲是想利用這個千載難逢的好機會，靠著一位極具魅力的英雄人物所散發出來的光芒來沾光，因為卡繆的思想在他因車禍身亡半世紀後，依然受到主流社會所推崇。
"I don’t think Albert Camus has any need of Sarkozy. I think Sarkozy has greater need of some intellectual sparkle," said Olivier Todd, a biographer of Camus, on French radio.
「我認為卡繆根本不需要薩科茲，反倒是薩科茲才更需要一點知識火花，」卡繆傳記作家陶德就在法國電台上表示。
新聞辭典
heap/pour scorns on sb/sth：蔑視、嘲笑某事或某人，如Critics of the President have been pouring scorn on the plan ever since it was first proposed.（自從總統首度提出這項計畫後，批評者就不斷對其冷嘲熱諷。）
cash in on sth：片語，指自某事或某狀況中謀利、以不當手法佔便宜，如Should the families of criminals be allowed to cash in on their crimes by selling stories to the papers?（罪犯的家屬難道可藉著把犯罪故事賣給報紙，乘機從他們的罪行中大撈一筆嗎？）
pantheon：名詞，原指 古羅馬時代的萬神殿，現泛指眾神廟或先賢祠等場所，如Jupiter is head of the Roman pantheon.（朱彼特為羅馬萬神殿的眾神之首。）亦可指一群對某領域或事件有偉大貢獻、廣受各界崇敬的人，如the pantheon of modern physics.（現代物理學的大師們）。
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