{"id":1544,"date":"2016-05-14T18:00:10","date_gmt":"2016-05-14T17:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/?p=1544"},"modified":"2025-11-12T19:17:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T18:17:01","slug":"le-recit-de-sion-par-son-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/en\/literature\/le-recit-de-sion-par-son-president\/","title":{"rendered":"The story of Sion by its president (Interview with Marcel Maurer)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Marcel Maurer pr\u00e9side la Ville de Sion depuis 2009. Il terminera son mandat \u00e0 la fin de l\u2019ann\u00e9e et ne se repr\u00e9sentera pas. Il y aurait beaucoup \u00e0 dire sur son bilan, mais c\u2019est pour son livre <em>Sion\u2026 La Vie<\/em> paru en d\u00e9cembre 2015 que le magistrat nous a ouvert les portes de l\u2019H\u00f4tel de Ville.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more Lire l\u2019entretien (en libre acc\u00e8s)-->\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Le Regard Libre<\/em>: D\u2019o\u00f9 est n\u00e9e l\u2019id\u00e9e de r\u00e9aliser un ouvrage sur Sion?<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p>Marcel Maurer: Cela faisait longtemps que l\u2019id\u00e9e me trottait dans la t\u00eate. Sion est une belle ville, dot\u00e9e de bons photographes, et il se trouve que j\u2019aime \u00e9crire. Quand j\u2019\u00e9tais plus jeune, je signais d\u00e9j\u00e0 des articles dans de petites revues. Je pr\u00e9voyais d\u2019\u00e9crire quelque chose \u00e0 la retraite. Il y a eu ensuite la rencontre avec Claude Coeudevez, et l\u2019aventure est donc arriv\u00e9e plus vite que pr\u00e9vu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Comment avez-vous collabor\u00e9 avec ce photographe?<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p>Tout est parti de <em>Sion21<\/em>, magazine de la Ville de Sion dans le cadre duquel notre archiviste a contact\u00e9 Claude Coeudevez pour r\u00e9aliser des photographies de la ville. Ce que j\u2019ai aim\u00e9 chez lui, c\u2019est que ses clich\u00e9s ne sont pas des cartes postales; il y a toujours cette id\u00e9e de \u00abvie dans la ville\u00bb. J\u2019ai alors eu l\u2019id\u00e9e de travailler avec lui pour un projet artistique, qui au d\u00e9part \u00e9tait modeste. J\u2019ai commenc\u00e9 par mettre par \u00e9crit une description des endroits de la ville qui avaient un rapport avec ma vie. Claude a ensuite r\u00e9alis\u00e9 environ mille photographies de ces lieux. Un groupe de travail a \u00e9t\u00e9 form\u00e9 autour de Patrice Tschopp, archiviste municipal, Fran\u00e7oise Berclaz-Zermatten, directrice de la librairie La Liseuse, Claude Coeudevez et moi. Nous nous sommes r\u00e9unis les dimanches soirs pour des s\u00e9ances tr\u00e8s structur\u00e9es. Cela a dur\u00e9 quelques mois. Claude nous soumettait des photographies par s\u00e9ries de vingt et nous devions en s\u00e9lectionner pour le livre. Pour qu\u2019une photo soit choisie, il fallait que les quatre personnes soient unanimes. Nous n\u2019avons pas eu de probl\u00e8me car nous \u00e9tions assez d\u2019accord. Enfin, j\u2019ai \u00e9crit des textes par rapport aux images retenues. Ces textes \u00e9taient d\u2019abord plus longs: je les ai ensuite \u00e9pur\u00e9s en collaboration avec La Liseuse. Mon id\u00e9e a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u2019effacer ma personne dans les textes, mais de la sugg\u00e9rer dans les images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">La langue fran\u00e7aise a-t-elle une importance particuli\u00e8re pour vous?<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p>Oui, totalement. Au cycle d\u2019orientation, j\u2019avais re\u00e7u un prix de fran\u00e7ais et j\u2019ai eu une excellente note \u00e0 la dissertation de maturit\u00e9 au coll\u00e8ge. Au moment de mes \u00e9tudes sup\u00e9rieures, quand je voyageais en train entre Z\u00fcrich et Sion, j\u2019ai lu beaucoup de classiques, dont <em>A la recherche du temps perdu<\/em> de Proust \u2013 en somme, tout ce qui m\u2019avait \u00e9t\u00e9 propos\u00e9 au cours de litt\u00e9rature. Ainsi, bien que je sois un scientifique (j\u2019\u00e9tais ing\u00e9nieur et professeur de physique), la lecture constitue une grande partie de mon temps libre. Il peut aussi \u00eatre question de livres de cuisine. Les livres sont des objets magnifiques qui nous \u00e9loignent du tintamarre du quotidien.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Quant \u00e0 se mettre \u00e0 \u00e9crire, c\u2019est autre chose.<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p>L\u2019\u00e9criture laisse une trace dans l\u2019histoire et elle est bien s\u00fbr li\u00e9e \u00e0 la lecture. Il y a un jeu tr\u00e8s subtil entre l\u2019\u00e9criture et la lecture. L\u2019aventure de l\u2019\u00e9criture est riche, car elle nous permet de nous poser beaucoup de questions. Mon but premier est de faire passer des \u00e9motions, et je crois que c\u2019est le but de la litt\u00e9rature en g\u00e9n\u00e9ral. Avec <em>Sion\u2026 La Vie<\/em>, les gens viennent me raconter leurs histoires par rapport aux images qui les concernent: le livre a donc une seconde vie. C\u2019est la vie apr\u00e8s le livre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ecrire ce livre sur \u00abvotre\u00bb ville, \u00e9tait-ce une mani\u00e8re de terminer de mani\u00e8re artistique votre pr\u00e9sidence?<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p>Ce n\u2019\u00e9tait pas du tout mon intention. Il s\u2019agit d\u2019une d\u00e9marche totalement s\u00e9par\u00e9e de mon projet politique, purement personnelle. D\u2019ailleurs, ce n\u2019\u00e9tait vraiment pas le meilleur moment en termes de disponibilit\u00e9, mais l\u2019amiti\u00e9 qui s\u2019est install\u00e9e entre Claude et moi a pr\u00e9cipit\u00e9 les choses. Mon langage dans ce livre n\u2019est pas politique. Nous voulions transcrire des \u00e9motions face \u00e0 la ville de Sion, car nous sommes les quatre des amoureux de la capitale valaisanne. Mon but consistait aussi \u00e0 aiguiser le regard des S\u00e9dunois et des visiteurs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A plusieurs reprises, vous citez de grands chanteurs francophones, Brel et Nougaro notamment. La chanson fran\u00e7aise, est-ce une autre de vos passions?<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p>Oui, il se trouve que je gratte un peu de guitare chez moi. Je poss\u00e8de un certain nombre d\u2019instruments \u00e0 cordes et j\u2019ai vraiment beaucoup de plaisir, en arrivant \u00e0 la maison, \u00e0 me saisir d\u2019une des 150\u00a0partitions de Georges Brassens et de jouer le morceau. Dans la chanson fran\u00e7aise, la musique et les textes me parlent. Ce sont des chansons qui restent. Elles m\u2019inspirent beaucoup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Apr\u00e8s votre pr\u00e9sidence, va-t-on plus entendre parler du po\u00e8te Marcel Maurer que du politicien?<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p>Je n\u2019ai pas comme objectif qu\u2019on parle de moi. Mais vous avez raison, je pense que l\u2019envie de communiquer des \u00e9motions va s\u00fbrement ressortir d\u2019une mani\u00e8re ou d\u2019une autre. Ma vie aujourd\u2019hui est tr\u00e8s disciplin\u00e9e; je ressens un grand besoin de libert\u00e9, de fantaisie et de cr\u00e9ativit\u00e9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Write to the author:&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:jonas.follonier@leregardlibre.com\">jonas.follonier@leregardlibre.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:34% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.payot.ch\/Detail\/sion__la_vie-marcel_maurer-9782883412439\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"475\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/sion----la-vie.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-514372 size-full\"\/><\/a><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>Marcel Maurer (textes) et Claude Coeudevez (photographies)<br><em>Sion&#8230; La Vie<\/em><br>Editions Monographic<em><br><\/em>2015<br>192 pages<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.payot.ch\/Detail\/sion__la_vie-marcel_maurer-9782883412439\">Order the book<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>You've just read an open-access article.\u00a0<\/strong>Debates, analysis, cultural news:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/en\/subscription\/\">subscribe<\/a>\u00a0to support us and get access to all our content!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marcel Maurer pr\u00e9side la Ville de Sion depuis 2009. 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