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  • Fiction ? Vous avez dit fiction ?

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    Un certain nombre de romans banals gagneraient à être ramenés, par exemple, à maximum dix lignes dialoguées, paraissant ainsi pour le symptôme qu’ils sont ; l’époque gagnerait à être dite en une compilation ordonnée de ces dialogues : on pourrait ainsi aller où le roman ne peut. Un tel livre essuierait bien sûr le feu dérisoire de tout le système éditorial. Je plaisante.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

  • Très mauvais

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    – Tu ne peux donc pas dire les choses directement, au lieu de les mettre toujours en dialogues ?

    – Les dialogues permettent au moins de n’être jamais d’accord, jamais tout à fait d’accord en tout cas, avec ce qu’on y écrit.

    – C’est ce que je dis, il y a toujours quelque chose qui ment dans le dialogue.

    – Et en même temps, c’est la seule honnêteté possible. Pourquoi faudrait-il croire à quoi que ce soit, d’ailleurs ?

    – Mais ce n’est pas sérieux. Tu dis des choses sur ce monde, les laisse entendre au moins, et tu voudrais faire croire en même temps que tu en es dégagé.

    – Je n’ai pas dit que le fait d’écrire – ou de penser – des dialogues solutionnait tout. Mais au moins cela indique le problème, et du coup ne triche pas – ou moins – avec.

    – Cela devrait aussi impliquer que tu taises ce en quoi tu crois vraiment.

    – Possible. Ou alors, je mets en dialogue aussi ce en quoi je crois, pour m’en dégager – puisque celui qui parle est toujours, d’une manière ou d’une autre, un imbécile.

    – Pour te lire, avec les outils de recherche modernes, il faudrait alors déduire ce qu’est ce dont tu ne parles pas et autour de quoi tu parles.

    – Ecriture centrifuge, lecture centripète.

    – C’est ça. Mais là, nous sommes arrivés à la question de la censure.

    – Et de l’autocensure.

    – Tu veux dire que le dialogue sert à rendre l’autocensure productive, à lui faire passer le cap de la censure : à dire ce qui est interdit, mais d’une façon telle que la censure ne puisse l’appréhender.

    – Oui.

    – Au risque d’égarer, voire de perdre un certain nombre de lecteurs, donc.

    – Les plus mauvais seulement. Mais qui peuvent être nombreux.

    – Où est la censure, aujourd’hui ?

    – Elle est à l’œuvre dans toutes les instances qui peuvent vous faire un procès pour ce que vous dites et qui ont pour seule éthique de développer le plus gros travail de paranoïa possible, et par extension dans toutes les instances qui les soutiennent on ont peur d’elles. Ce qui, tout de même, commence à faire.

    – Une telle censure ne peut-elle pas être légitime, au moins parfois ?

    – Elle est toujours légitimée, c’est certain ; au moins partiellement. Quant à savoir si elle peut être pleinement légitime, ce n’est pas mon problème. Parce que mon problème est de faire en sorte que l’autocensure permette de franchir la censure. Et c’est tout.

    – La censure peut aussi conférer la gloire, aujourd’hui.

    – Mais elle opère tout de même. Même après qu’elle sera levée. Elle aura rendu l’œuvre illisible, c’est-à-dire lisible seulement selon son critère.

    – Tu pourrais faire un dialogue de cette conversation ?

    – Oui, mais ce serait vite didactique. Et donc très mauvais.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

  • Ethique

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    « Quand on tire, on raconte pas sa vie », dit un personnage d’un célèbre western. Eh bien, quand on écrit, c’est pareil. Et même, on n’est pas obligé de raconter ses lectures, fût-on français. (Je sais, il y a le roman, ah, le roman…) Philippe Sollers, qui est un monstre de fatuité, a dit quelque part, sans doute en pensant à lui-même (quoi d’autre ?), je cite de mémoire : s’il y a quelque part un poète, il s’abstiendra d’écrire de la poésie. Pourquoi pas, en effet ? A ce compte-là, s’il y a quelque part un écrivain, il s’abstiendra de publier des livres… C’est d’ailleurs ce que je me suis dit cet après-midi, en flânant chez des marchands patentés de livres qui débitaient des beigbeders et autres mangas à la chaîne, joyeux Noël avec des femmes puissantes ! Mais je ne vais pas vous raconter ma vie, même si ce blog n’est pas autre chose qu’une poubelle…

     

    En rangeant mon portefeuille, j’ai jeté des tas de tickets de carte bleue. Au dos de l’un d’eux, ces phrases, que je ne me souviens pas avoir écrites. (J’imagine que ça parle sinon des dialogues du moins de mon rapport à eux ; mais c’est reconstruit après coup, incertain, pure hypothèse…)

     

    1. Ne pas mentir. 2. Ne pas chercher à dire la vérité. 3. Etre précis. 4. Remercier.

     

    Remercier est souligné deux fois. Je ne sais plus non plus pourquoi. Je trouve néanmoins que ce billet mérite vachement bien son titre.

     

     

     

     

  • Je suis un phantasme

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    Formation :

    – Ne mens que lorsque c’est inutile.

    – Expliquez-moi.

    – Non.

     

    Il a mis très longtemps à comprendre.

    Et d’abord il a compris des choses fausses.

    Et ce qu’il a aujourd’hui compris ne l’est sans doute pas moins.

     

    Il a maintenant un éventail de réponses.

     

     

     

    Un ami :

    – Tu sais ce que c’est, ton problème ?

    – Non. Mais je sens que tu vas m’éclairer.

    – C’est que tu es beaucoup trop intelligent.

    – Ça, ce serait plutôt ton problème avec moi, non ?

    – Connard.

     

    Il n’aime pas le pouvoir ; et son intelligence doit demeurer inemployée.

     

     

     

    Personne ne triche autant que celui qui croit pouvoir, de ce qu’il pense de lui et de ce qu’on dit de lui, se connaître ; et devient ainsi à lui-même son phantasme, finissant même par imaginer ce qu’on eût dit, en son absence, de lui. Combien de romans ?

     

     

     

    En son absence, donc :

    – C’est un garçon auquel il n’est pas difficile de comprendre l’adversaire.

    Le nombre de nos motivations est extrêmement limité.

    – Demandez-lui d’écrire des rapports, alors.

    – Nous l’avons fait. Ils sont très simples. Mais nous les lisons mal.

    – Et dans l’action ?

    – Ou il désarme l’adversaire comme on retire à un enfant son jouet ; ou il prend toute la charge pleine gueule.

    – Et dans le second cas ?

    – Eh bien, il s’en fout.

    – Il s’en fout vraiment, ou bien est-ce affecté ?

    – Je ne sais pas.

    – De toute façon, ça revient au même.

    – Oui.

    – Bloquez-le dans des tâches subalternes. Humiliez-le doucement.

     

    Ceci est un autoportrait triché.

     

    Par exemple, il ne contient pas de dialogue avec des femmes.

    J’ai déjà donné.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

  • Banalités

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Souvent – parfois ne serait pas assez –, marchant au hasard de la ville et de ses rues, des bribes de dialogues, étrangement désarrimées de toutes personnes, personnages ou même visages, flottent dans ma tête. (Peut-être que j’entends leurs voix, ou bien leur prête mentalement la mienne ; quoiqu’il me semble parfois songer à des voix féminines… Non, je ne suis pas cinglé, merci.)

    Celle-ci, par exemple, l’autre jour :

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