A singular look at a landscape and a culture that belong to collective memory: the great dream of Americana, its symbols and fetishes, which have reached us through music, literature and cinema. By turns authentic, artificial, rugged, abandoned, enigmatic and redemptive, American Decorum takes up travel and the transformation of all things, however glorious they may be.

That landscape is the witness of a celebration already over. It is the set of a play that has already been performed, and in which the author takes pleasure in setting a mysterious, even dark background against a form that is always luminous and almost sophisticated. The volume closes ten years of research; it is a dry thing, which wants to show only the essential, without digression or embellishment.