{"id":35116,"date":"2020-07-28T21:33:32","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T19:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/?p=35116"},"modified":"2022-11-13T14:51:30","modified_gmt":"2022-11-13T13:51:30","slug":"linsignifiante-lourdeur-des-petites-gens-oubliees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/en\/literature\/linsignifiante-lourdeur-des-petites-gens-oubliees\/","title":{"rendered":"The insignificance of forgotten little people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-drop-cap\"><strong>In several surveys conducted on Facebook, here and there within literary groups, obscure or luminous, elitist or popular, deserted or teeming, anarchic or measured like a Swiss clock, Pierre Michon's name systematically gallops back into the top ten most adored writers. And considered with, as an example, his work <em>Tiny lives<\/em>, This is the famous aroma of forgotten existences that move us to the point of tenderness. But why does the name Pierre Michon keep cropping up, the daily bread that we're all so desperate to get our hands on?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more Lire la critique-->\n\n\n\n<p>Avant d&#8217;y r\u00e9pondre, il faut savoir que ces <em>Tiny lives<\/em> sont une suite de huit existences ignor\u00e9es, oubli\u00e9es, de noms tomb\u00e9s en d\u00e9su\u00e9tude qui ne sifflent plus \u00e0 aucune oreille, ni n&#8217;\u00e9voquent plus aucun souvenir. Ces vies insoup\u00e7onn\u00e9es et balay\u00e9es par la mort ou la disparition sont uniquement reli\u00e9es \u00e0 Pierre Michon (le suppos\u00e9 narrateur) par le sang ou par la rencontre. Et au moyen d&#8217;un des pouvoirs de l&#8217;\u00e9criture, celui de r\u00e9actualiser le pass\u00e9, de lui rendre son souffle, Pierre Michon perfuse ces vies avec les mots, pour qu&#8217;elles respirent \u00e0 nouveau, que le sang circule, qu&#8217;elles r\u00e9chauffent les peaux mortes. Et pour comm\u00e9morer les souvenirs, usant \u00e0 foison de la fiction quand la m\u00e9moire ne suffit pas, imaginant ce qu&#8217;il aurait pu en \u00eatre d&#8217;un tel ou d&#8217;un tel, de son anc\u00eatre Antoine Peluchet, par exemple, banni par son p\u00e8re et disparu, dont la seule preuve tangible de son passage ici-bas reste une relique conserv\u00e9e dans une vieille bo\u00eete \u00e0 biscuit. De cette relique, comme d&#8217;autres amorces que le lecteur d\u00e9couvrira en lisant l&#8217;ouvrage, Pierre Michon se souvient:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u00abLa relique est une petite Vierge \u00e0 l&#8217;enfant en biscuit, souverainement inexpressive sous un bo\u00eetier de verre et de soie qui rec\u00e8le, dans un double fond cachet\u00e9, les restes infimes d\u2019un saint. Cet objet suivit jusqu\u2019\u00e0 moi la fili\u00e8re que j\u2019ai dite, et \u00e9pousa tous ces noms; et tous les noms que j\u2019ai dits sont attest\u00e9s ici et l\u00e0 par les st\u00e8les des cimeti\u00e8res de Chatelus, Saint-Goussaud, Mourioux, invariables sous le grand soleil et dans le gel des nuits; et toutes les chairs variables qui habit\u00e8rent ces noms en appel\u00e8rent \u00e0 la relique quand elles durent en d\u00e9coudre avec l\u2019essentiel, quand dans son nid vivant l&#8217;\u00eatre se heurte \u00e0 lui-m\u00eame et de ce heurt para\u00eet ou dispara\u00eet, quand il faut na\u00eetre et mourir.\u00bb<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Des souvenirs sur commande<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Peut-\u00eatre que si ces <em>Tiny lives<\/em> ont boulevers\u00e9 autant le lectorat francophone \u2013 et continuent de le bouleverser \u2013 c&#8217;est parce que chacun, dans ces huit successions de vies racont\u00e9es, approfondies et r\u00e9apropri\u00e9es par les mots, s&#8217;y retrouve \u00e9go\u00efstement et intimement, fabulant (par effet de miroir) une fois le livre referm\u00e9, au sujet d&#8217;une relique de sa propre famille sur laquelle contreplaquer aussi, \u00e0 son tour, le d\u00e9cor vivant d&#8217;un drame familial ou d&#8217;un bonheur \u00e9tincelant, consolidant le pass\u00e9 au moyen de l&#8217;intuition, repeignant les murs au passage, colmatant les trous de m\u00e9moire avec du ciment magn\u00e9sien. Cr\u00e9ant puisqu&#8217;il le faut, car nous savons un jour et oublions le lendemain, des souvenirs sur commande pour se rappeler et rappeler la v\u00e9rit\u00e9 \u00e0 l&#8217;ordre sur ce qui fut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Des petites gens et des petits villages de France<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Et si l&#8217;on s&#8217;arrache autant la miche du pain de Pierre Michon, n&#8217;est-ce pas parce que c&#8217;est un pain de campagne, croustillant et dor\u00e9 comme c&#8217;est l&#8217;usage, \u00e0 la fran\u00e7aise? Ces <em>Tiny lives<\/em> sont celles de ruraux du Limousin, au d\u00e9but du XX<sup>th<\/sup> si\u00e8cle, du d\u00e9partement de la Creuse. Autrement dit, ce sont les vies rudes de petites gens, vivant dans des petits villages m\u00e9connus, eux aussi, et \u00e0 une \u00e9poque o\u00f9 les femmes, comme Elise par exemple, veillent sur les foyers et les entretiennent, de la marmite au m\u00e9nage, suant sous leur tablier pendant que les hommes suent sous leur chapeau, aux champs, bottelant le foin ou rameutant le b\u00e9tail. Ainsi les anc\u00eatres de Pierre Michon ne sont pas si diff\u00e9rents des n\u00f4tres, car la vie campagnarde reste la vie campagnarde. Certains r\u00eavent de faire fortune sur des terres lointaines. D&#8217;autres restent, se d\u00e9chirent, se font violence, s&#8217;apaisent et s&#8217;aiment follement. Mais tout le monde vit et le soir, quand le sommeil r\u00e9quisitionne nos corps et abaisse nos paupi\u00e8res, tout le monde r\u00eave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u00abLe vent passe sur Saint-Goussaud; le monde, certes, fait violence. Mais quelles violences n\u2019a-t-il pas subies? Les foug\u00e8res mis\u00e9ricordieuses cachent la terre malade; y poussent du mauvais bl\u00e9, des histoires niaises, des familles f\u00eal\u00e9es; du vent le soleil surgit, comme un g\u00e9ant, comme un fou. Puis il s\u2019\u00e9teint, comme s\u2019est \u00e9teinte la famille des Peluchet: on dit ainsi, quand le nom cesse de s\u2019apparier \u00e0 des vivants. Seules le prof\u00e8rent encore des bouches sans langue. Qui ment avec obstination dans le vent?\u00bb<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Du style<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Enfin, ce qui pla\u00eet, chez Pierre Michon, c&#8217;est s\u00fbrement la m\u00eame chose que chez les autres, on pourrait dire un Proust, un Aragon, un Bobin, une Duras, une Ernaux ou une Despentes (osons le fourre-tout), c&#8217;est la singularit\u00e9 de l&#8217;\u00e9criture et la trouvaille assum\u00e9e d&#8217;un style. Dans ces <em>Tiny lives<\/em>, les phrases s&#8217;enfilent comme des perles \u00e0 un collier de jeune mari\u00e9e. L&#8217;\u00e9criture est travail d&#8217;orf\u00e8vre, imp\u00e9rieuse, pr\u00e9cieuse, pigment\u00e9e et odorante. Le point-virgule sert de point d&#8217;attache, donne du rythme et de la vivacit\u00e9 aux descriptions et les parenth\u00e8ses, de temps en temps, servent \u00e0 contenir les doutes du narrateur. Bien s\u00fbr, il faut ajouter un vocabulaire l\u00e9ch\u00e9 et une po\u00e9sie puissante, naturelle, capable de tout. Une po\u00e9sie capable d&#8217;embrasser le milieu pauvre, rural, et la vip\u00e8re sous les ronces. Une po\u00e9sie capable d&#8217;alourdir, sur la balance des vies humaines, l&#8217;insignifiante lourdeur des petites gens oubli\u00e9es. Et cette insignifiante lourdeur, ce poids d&#8217;humain, ce poids plume, finalement lourd comme une ancre sacr\u00e9e, n&#8217;est-il pas la preuve \u00e9vidente que toute vie est importante?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u00abIl a caress\u00e9 des petits serpents tr\u00e8s doux; il parlait toujours. Le m\u00e9got br\u00fblait son doigt; il a pris sa derni\u00e8re bouff\u00e9e. Le premier soleil l\u2019a frapp\u00e9, il a chancel\u00e9, s\u2019est retenu \u00e0 des robes fauves, des poign\u00e9es de menthe; il s\u2019est souvenu des chairs de femmes, de regards d\u2019enfants, du d\u00e9lire des innocents: tout cela parlait dans le chant des oiseaux; il est tomb\u00e9 \u00e0 genoux dans la bouleversante signifiance du Verbe universel. Il a relev\u00e9 la t\u00eate, a remerci\u00e9 quelqu\u2019un, tout a pris un sens, il est retomb\u00e9 mort.\u00bb<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Write to the author: <a href=\"mailto:arthur.billerey@leregardlibre.com\">arthur.billerey@leregardlibre.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cr\u00e9dit photo: \u00a9 Babsy\/Wikipedia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:38% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"195\" height=\"289\" src=\"http:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/product_9782070700387_195x320.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-35119 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/product_9782070700387_195x320.jpg 195w, https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/product_9782070700387_195x320-101x150.jpg 101w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/figure><div 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