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Tout homme est une nuit

by Lydie Salvayre

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Men return to others the brutality of an order from which they suffer. They invent themselves at little expense of convenient enemies. Some fears within them act upon them. Questions as old as the world but of burning topicality, to which Lydie Salvayre gives here literary form. A novel, then, and of a jubilant causticity, which confronts, on the one hand: a loner, a scholar, a step-quite-like, a step-all-in-conformity , a sick man who chose to retire to a place of beauty, and on the other: the inhabitants of a peaceful village that the arrival of this new, this intruder, jostles and deeply disconcerted. Very soon there will arise, between one and the other, misunderstanding and mistrust, then misunderstandings and evil suspicions, then the great unfounded fears and the violence that they secretly secrete. Since every man is a night.--Translation of page 4 of cover by Seuil.… (more)
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Un homme (le narrateur), professeur de lettres atteint d'un cancer, se retire seul dans un petit village provençal pour s'éloigner de sa compagne avec laquelle la relation est devenue impossible depuis l'irruption de la maladie. Il se rend compte peu à peu que la méfiance des villageois à l'égard de "l'étranger" qu'il représente à leur yeux se mue progressivement en hostilité puis en haine. Terriblement seul et troublé, traqué, il trouve occasionnellement un peu de consolation et de chaleur humaine auprès de Mîna, jeune femme plantureuse rencontrée dans le bus et plus tard, auprès d'Augustin, un jeune homme exalté, fils de Marcellin, patron du Café des sports et grand gaillard craint de tous, tant par sa corpulence que par sa virulence.
Le texte alterne essentiellement entre une narration à la première personne et des espaces de dialogues entre les habitués du Café des sports, lesquels s'adonnent aux propos les plus vils, racistes et détestables sur "l'étranger" et plus généralement sur tout ce qui ne leur ressemble pas.
Lydie Salvayre a conféré à son personnage un certain nombre de traits qui lui sont propres : son goût pour la langue impeccable, les efforts à accomplir pour faire oublier la modestie de ses origines, la terreur face à la maladie, la bataille qui s'engage entre rage et soumission.
Les dialogues des villageois, d'une bêtise et d'une vulgarité sans nom, frisent trop souvent la caricature mais n'en donnent pas moins le ton d'une frange population ignorante, apeurée et sans boussole, incapable de penser l'autre, incapable de penser tout court et qui par impuissance se réfugie dans la haine et le rejet. ( )
  biche1968 | Mar 29, 2020 |
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Men return to others the brutality of an order from which they suffer. They invent themselves at little expense of convenient enemies. Some fears within them act upon them. Questions as old as the world but of burning topicality, to which Lydie Salvayre gives here literary form. A novel, then, and of a jubilant causticity, which confronts, on the one hand: a loner, a scholar, a step-quite-like, a step-all-in-conformity , a sick man who chose to retire to a place of beauty, and on the other: the inhabitants of a peaceful village that the arrival of this new, this intruder, jostles and deeply disconcerted. Very soon there will arise, between one and the other, misunderstanding and mistrust, then misunderstandings and evil suspicions, then the great unfounded fears and the violence that they secretly secrete. Since every man is a night.--Translation of page 4 of cover by Seuil.

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