Lydie Salvayre
Née en 1946 d’un père andalou et d’une mère catalane, réfugiés en France en 1939, Lydie Salvayre passe son enfance près de Toulouse. Après une licence de Lettres modernes à l...
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Parution :
03/04/2019
Collection :
Ma nuit au musée
With Giacometti’s statue The Walking Man as a starting point, the 2014 Goncourt winner undertakes an emotional re-exploration of her indignation and her family’s story as the daughter of a Spanish exile.
Lydie Salvayre spent a whole night alone at the Picasso Museum during its Picasso-Giacometti exhibition. Having had a lasting passion for The Walking Man (a work that she sees as the very essence of art but had only previously seen photographed in magazines), she was sure to be profoundly moved when confronted with so much beauty. And yet, seeing this “motionless, frozen but also moving body, like a waves at sea that the cold has frozen the swell” produces only mild irritation in her.
Is she illiterate in beauty? Is this sensibility passed on only among the well-to-do to reinforce their exclusivity? Unless the space is cramping the piece and robbing it of its profound message? She is in a turmoil and plagued by questions.
Between the lines – as the author reveals her relationship with her father, her family of exiled Spanish communists, her obsession with humility and the denunciation anchored within every injustice – the reader gradually discovers her demanding expectations of art and her fear of death. A powerful, full-blooded read.
Lydie Salvayre has written some twenty books, translated into many languages, including Pas pleurer which won the 2014 prix Goncourt (300,000 copies sold).
Lydie Salvayre spent a whole night alone at the Picasso Museum during its Picasso-Giacometti exhibition. Having had a lasting passion for The Walking Man (a work that she sees as the very essence of art but had only previously seen photographed in magazines), she was sure to be profoundly moved when confronted with so much beauty. And yet, seeing this “motionless, frozen but also moving body, like a waves at sea that the cold has frozen the swell” produces only mild irritation in her.
Is she illiterate in beauty? Is this sensibility passed on only among the well-to-do to reinforce their exclusivity? Unless the space is cramping the piece and robbing it of its profound message? She is in a turmoil and plagued by questions.
Between the lines – as the author reveals her relationship with her father, her family of exiled Spanish communists, her obsession with humility and the denunciation anchored within every injustice – the reader gradually discovers her demanding expectations of art and her fear of death. A powerful, full-blooded read.
Lydie Salvayre has written some twenty books, translated into many languages, including Pas pleurer which won the 2014 prix Goncourt (300,000 copies sold).
L’humeur railleuse et le verbe corrosif, Lydie Salvayre se saisit du prétexte d’une nuit passée au musée Picasso pour questionner le milieu artistique et ses institutions. Se tournant vers son enfance de pauvre bien élevée et abordant sans masque son lien à un père redouté et redoutable, elle essaie de comprendre comment s’est constitué son rapport à la culture et à son pouvoir d’intimidation, tout en faisant l’éloge de Giacometti, de sa radicalité, de ses échecs revendiqués et de son infinie modestie.
224 pages
Format :
123 x 185 mm
EAN :
9782234083622
Prix :
18.00 €
