Since
its publication last
April, the latest work
of the Lebanese Nassim
Nicolas Taleb, The
Black Swan, witnessed
a spectacular
worldwide success.
Appearing in the
category of «with
ideas» and considered
as a «non-vulgarized
essay with a thousand
references», this
book on «the impact
of the great
improbability» and
incertitude comes at
the head of
best-sellers of the
New York Times, for
the thirteenth
consecutive week. It
is classified number
one of the Business
Week and selected
among the best books
for the year 2007 by
Amazon.com. The
philosophical approach
of the topics with
humoristic
connotations has
yielded interest at
all levels:
journalistic, academic,
philosophical,
scientific, political,
economic and financial.
The Black Swan comes
down like an enormous
slab stone provoking
large scale
reverberations. Shall
it be perceived in the
next Pullitzer Prize
Pulitzer?