by ÉRIC TRONCY At the library of Éditions Gallimard in Paris, on Oct. 12, 2016, the writer Philippe Sollers told the journalist Léa Salamé: “Too many books are being published, on purpose, to hide the books that matter… We are living in an aggravated democracy, which means everyone has the right to write.” It’s true, after all. Perhaps writing demands special abilities and special knowledge, and perhaps not everyone has these abilities and knowledge, let alone the imagination, talent, or genius that, in the end, makes all the difference. I hope there are still two or three people who can get past the provocation of Sollers’s “aggravated democracy” — it’s just an observation, really, a brutal but joyous observation — and grasp the simple idea of useless overproduction intended to camouflage what is essential. By now, everyone has heard of flooding, the Internet technique of drowning out information with “repetitive,…