Philippe Claudel
Écrivain traduit dans le monde entier, Philippe Claudel est aussi cinéaste et dramaturge. Il a notamment publié aux éditions Stock, Les Âmes grises, La Petite Fille de Monsieur Linh, Le...
L'arbre du pays Toraja
Auteur
Parution :
04/01/2016
Collection :
La Bleue
THE TREE OF TORAJA COUNTRY
“What are the living? At first glance, it seems so obvious. Separating the living from the dead. Being among the living. Being alive. But what does being alive really mean? When I breathe and walk, when I eat, or dream, or urinate, am I fully alive? What’s the highest level of living?”
Philippe Claudel’s latest novel is to some extent his Grande Bellezza. A filmmaker half way through his life loses his closest friend who is also his producer, the funny, unsettling Eugène. Drifting between two glorious women, between the past and the present, amid memories of dearly loved faces and dazzling unexpected encounters, Kundera in a hospital café, Piccoli with his explosive laugh, the narrator considers “the place death has in our lives”. And so Eugène’s tomb becomes a promise of life, and we manage to escape melancholy in order to be reconciled with ourselves.
Philippe Claudel is the author of Grey Souls (Les Ames grises, winner of the 2003 Prix Renaudot and translated in more than 30 countries), Monsieur Linh and His child (La Petite Fille de Monsieur Linh, Stock 2005), Brodeck’s Report (Le Rapport de Brodeck, winner of the 2007 Goncourt des lycéens) and L’Enquête (Stock, 2010). He has directed four feature films, notably I’ve Loved You so Long (Il y a longtemps que je t’aime) with Elsa Zylberstein and Kristin Scott Thomas, which won two César awards.
“What are the living? At first glance, it seems so obvious. Separating the living from the dead. Being among the living. Being alive. But what does being alive really mean? When I breathe and walk, when I eat, or dream, or urinate, am I fully alive? What’s the highest level of living?”
Philippe Claudel’s latest novel is to some extent his Grande Bellezza. A filmmaker half way through his life loses his closest friend who is also his producer, the funny, unsettling Eugène. Drifting between two glorious women, between the past and the present, amid memories of dearly loved faces and dazzling unexpected encounters, Kundera in a hospital café, Piccoli with his explosive laugh, the narrator considers “the place death has in our lives”. And so Eugène’s tomb becomes a promise of life, and we manage to escape melancholy in order to be reconciled with ourselves.
Philippe Claudel is the author of Grey Souls (Les Ames grises, winner of the 2003 Prix Renaudot and translated in more than 30 countries), Monsieur Linh and His child (La Petite Fille de Monsieur Linh, Stock 2005), Brodeck’s Report (Le Rapport de Brodeck, winner of the 2007 Goncourt des lycéens) and L’Enquête (Stock, 2010). He has directed four feature films, notably I’ve Loved You so Long (Il y a longtemps que je t’aime) with Elsa Zylberstein and Kristin Scott Thomas, which won two César awards.
« Qu’est-ce que c’est les vivants ? À première vue, tout n’est qu’évidence. Être avec les vivants. Être dans la vie. Mais qu’est-ce que cela signifie, profondément, être vivant ? Quand je respire et marche, quand je mange, quand je rêve, suis- je pleinement vivant ? Quand je sens la chaleur douce d’Elena, suis-je davantage vivant ? Quel est le plus haut degré du vivant ? »
Un cinéaste au mitan de sa vie perd son meilleur ami et réfléchit sur la part que la mort occupe dans notre existence. Entre deux femmes magnifiques, entre le présent et le passé, dans la mémoire des visages aimés et la lumière des rencontres inattendues, L’Arbre du pays Toraja célèbre les promesses de la vie.
216 pages
Format :
137 x 215 mm
EAN :
9782234081109
Prix :
18.00 €
