Henry, Henry is a brilliantly conceived experimental novel comprising two alternating stories: a factually inaccurate pseudo-biography of 17th-century composer Henry Purcell and the mid-20th-century story of the people writing the biography. In the 17th-century narrative, the young Henry is repeated
Henri Calet
✍ Scribed by revue Europe
- Publisher
- Europe & Atelier Panik éd. numérique
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- French
- Weight
- 162 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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✦ Synopsis
Un drôle de type, ce Calet ! Voyou, libertaire et cravaté. Voyageur intrépide qui sillonne le monde pour chanter finalement les louanges du XIVe arrondissement. Chroniqueur hors du commun du milieu du XXe siècle, mais qui n’a jamais cédé à ses modes. Faux tranquille en travers d’une vie romanesque à souhait. Un fin humour allié à la peine de vie la plus noire. Amateur de portraits posés et propagateur de la discrétion en littérature. On l’entend à la fois proclamer qu’il aime se fondre dans la foule charnelle, celle de Paris, tout en suivant le cheminement de ses solitudes à lui, moins subies que revendiquées. Tout Calet est dans un sourire qui tient tête au tra-gique. Dans une manière de saisir l’entre-deux du cocasse, l’incongruité discrète, le tendrement décalé. On lit La Belle Lurette, Les Grandes Largeurs, Le Tout sur le tout, Monsieur Paul… La force de certaines phrases de Calet nous prend au dépour-vu, sans donner de prise. On reste alors captivé. C’est l’esprit de sérieux qui lui est étranger, pas le sérieux de la vie. La vie, « ce petit mot d’une syllabe, presque un soupir… » ÉTUDES ET TEXTES DE Michel P. Schmitt, François Nourissier, Pierre Pa-chet, Alain Dugrand, Paul Fournel, Jacques Chessex, Jean-Noël Blanc, Gilles Quinsat, Pierre Vilar, Philippe Wahl, Marc Dambre, Bruno Curatolo, Marc Kober, Mireille Hermet, Jean-Pierre Baril. Henri Calet : Misère des camps et autres textes retrouvés.
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