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“Unmentionables” is how Faria, a hobo having set up camp by the Maldormé creek, calls the people of Marseille (the ruling National Convention had stripped the city of its name for a few months in 1794). Faria's remote location, his verbose harangues, echoes of Dumas' Count of Monte Cristo and its namesake priest, a heterogeneous style (novel, monologue, epic remnants), all contribute to a critique of cultural benchmarks and discursive schemes, not to mention the legends and stereotypes of Marseille. Thus, the entire social rumour of the city is upended through the diatribes of a dockside orator who is at times preacher, rhapsodist or prophet.