{"id":8612,"date":"2017-05-14T19:37:22","date_gmt":"2017-05-14T18:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/?p=8612"},"modified":"2022-09-25T16:27:49","modified_gmt":"2022-09-25T14:27:49","slug":"la-ballade-de-jim-harrison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/en\/literature\/la-ballade-de-jim-harrison\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ballad of Jim Harrison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Le Regard Libre N\u00b0 27 &#8211; L\u00e9a Farine<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00ab Le plus souvent, rien de particulier ne me tracasse, du moins rien qui ne soit aussit\u00f4t rectifiable, rien d\u2019autre que le besoin de faire un pas de c\u00f4t\u00e9 loin de ma vie pendant un ou deux jours et de marcher en pays inconnu. Peu apr\u00e8s l\u2019aube, \u00e9quip\u00e9 d\u2019une carte de la r\u00e9gion, je me prom\u00e8ne dans les champs d\u00e9serts, les canyons, les bois, mais de pr\u00e9f\u00e9rence pr\u00e8s d\u2019un torrent ou d\u2019une rivi\u00e8re, car depuis l\u2019enfance j\u2019aime leur bruit. L\u2019eau vive est \u00e0 jamais au temps pr\u00e9sent, un \u00e9tat que nous \u00e9vitons assez douloureusement. \u00bb (Jim Harisson, <em>En Marge<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>Le temps pr\u00e9sent \u2013 voil\u00e0 peut-\u00eatre ce qui caract\u00e9rise le mieux l\u2019\u0153uvre de Jim Harrison. Cet \u00e9crivain et po\u00e8te am\u00e9ricain, n\u00e9 en 1937 dans le Michigan et mort en 2016, use du langage comme d\u2019un mat\u00e9riau brut, presque physique, qui fait voir et fait sentir sans jamais verser dans une esth\u00e9tisation trop artificielle.<\/p>\n<p>Son confr\u00e8re Yann Queffelec \u00e9crit dans <em>Le Nouvel Observateur<\/em> en 1981\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0Le style est \u00e0 lui seul un chef-d\u2019\u0153uvre, une le\u00e7on pour auteurs fran\u00e7ais plus habiles \u00e0 sodomiser les mouches de la ponctuation, \u00e0 sacraliser des arguties qu\u2019\u00e0 livrer une inspiration urgente.\u00a0\u00bb Que l\u2019auteur d\u00e9crive les grandes plaines et for\u00eats am\u00e9ricaines, ses parties de chasse en solitaire, les grandes beuveries qu\u2019il affectionne, ou l\u2019existence et les r\u00eaves de ses personnages, c\u2019est toujours avec chair, avec sang, avec bruits et odeurs \u2013 \u00e7a vit.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Jim Harrison est consid\u00e9r\u00e9 comme l\u2019un des repr\u00e9sentants contemporains les plus illustres du genre am\u00e9ricain \u00ab\u00a0nature writing\u00a0\u00bb, qui trouve sa fondation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique dans le transcendantalisme d\u2019Henry David Thoreau. En r\u00e9sum\u00e9, le courant en question consid\u00e8re les \u00e9cosyst\u00e8mes, dans une perspective philosophique ou litt\u00e9raire, comme partie int\u00e9grante des exp\u00e9riences humaines. L\u2019homme n\u2019est pas homme tout seul \u2013 il l\u2019est toujours dans et avec la nature. Si les grands romans de Jim Harrison comme <em>Wolf<\/em> or <em>Dalva<\/em>, le recueil de nouvelles <em>L\u00e9gendes d\u2019automne<\/em>, les r\u00e9cits autobiographiques ou les po\u00e8mes, se distinguent par leur composante humaniste, il s\u2019agit d\u2019un humanisme r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9 par la nature, et qui la r\u00e9v\u00e8le. L\u2019humain, chez Jim Harrison, mange, boit, fait l\u2019amour, parcourt les bois avec ses chiens ou avec ses chevaux, tout en s\u2019interrogeant sur lui-m\u00eame et ses origines. A l\u2019image de l\u2019auteur, d\u2019ailleurs, \u00e0 la fois intellectuel, immens\u00e9ment cultiv\u00e9, et passionn\u00e9 des saines nourritures terrestres.<\/p>\n<p>Un bon exemple de cette id\u00e9e de retour \u00e0 la nature toute d\u00e9barrass\u00e9e de nostalgie romantique et de consid\u00e9rations par trop normatives, est la place accord\u00e9e aux natifs am\u00e9ricains dans l\u2019\u0153uvre. Jim Harrison \u00e9crit dans <em>En Marge<\/em> :<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab William Blake : \u00ab Comment savons-nous que chaque oiseau qui fend l\u2019air est un immense monde de d\u00e9lices ferm\u00e9s \u00e0 nos cinq sens ? \u00bb<\/p>\n<p>Que vous lisiez E. O Wilson ou Jean-Henri Fabre, vous \u00eates attir\u00e9 parmi les d\u00e9lices innombrables des plus petites cr\u00e9atures. J\u2019ai alors pens\u00e9 que les autochtones am\u00e9ricains consacraient l\u2019attention de toute leur vie au monde naturel afin de survivre. Le fait qu\u2019ils ne soient plus oblig\u00e9s de le faire pose une s\u00e9rie de questions \u00e9normes. Le po\u00e8te Wallace Steven est l\u2019auteur de cette d\u00e9claration troublante : \u00ab Nous \u00e9tions tous indiens jadis. \u00bb (Des analyses ADN prouvent qu\u2019il y a encore plus longtemps nous \u00e9tions tous noirs). Cela semble techniquement vrai et j\u2019en ai tir\u00e9 cette inconfortable conclusion qu\u2019\u00e0 cause de ma familiarit\u00e9 avec le monde naturel je me suis fortement identifi\u00e9 \u00e0 ceux qui, jusqu\u2019\u00e0 une date r\u00e9cente, avaient fond\u00e9 leur existence sur une telle familiarit\u00e9. Et puis je savais depuis longtemps mes plaisirs les plus intenses li\u00e9s \u00e0 des activit\u00e9s comme la chasse, la p\u00eache et l\u2019\u00e9tude des r\u00e9gions sauvages, toutes activit\u00e9s identiques \u00e0 celles de n\u2019importe quel bip\u00e8de du pl\u00e9istoc\u00e8ne. Les diff\u00e9rences essentielles entre les autochtones am\u00e9ricains et moi tenaient au fait que mon peuple n\u2019avait jamais subi leur sort atroce. Mon peuple n\u2019est jamais pass\u00e9 d\u2019une dizaine de millions de membres jusqu\u2019\u00e0 environ trois cent mille entre 1500 et 1900. \u00bb<\/p>\n<p>Nous ne redeviendrons jamais chasseurs-cueilleurs. Mais ce que Jim Harrison nous fait sentir, c\u2019est que le lien de l\u2019homme avec la nature, plus encore que vital, est atavique. Une affaire de compl\u00e9tude. N\u2019est entier et enti\u00e8rement humain que celui qui se reconna\u00eet \u00e0 la fois comme \u00eatre spirituel et rationnel et \u00e0 la fois comme partie d\u2019un syst\u00e8me naturel auquel il doit sa survie, voire son bonheur :<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab Pour te souvenir que tu es vivant, visite le cimeti\u00e8re de ton p\u00e8re, \u00e0 midi, apr\u00e8s avoir fait l\u2019amour, encore tout envelopp\u00e9 d\u2019une odeur de mammif\u00e8re que tu es forc\u00e9 de ch\u00e9rir. Sous chaque pierre tombale se trouve l\u2019in\u00e9vitable surprise de quelqu\u2019un, la mort inattendue d\u2019un corps biologique, qui a lutt\u00e9 si fort, autant qu\u2019il le devait.<\/p>\n<p>Maintenant, en route vers la maison, sans regarder en arri\u00e8re, trop c\u2019est trop. Ach\u00e8te le meilleur vin que tu puisses te payer et une douzaine de balais-brosses. Prends quelques gorg\u00e9es de vin, jette les meubles par la fen\u00eatre et commence \u00e0 balayer. Balaie les murs jusqu\u2019\u00e0 ce qu\u2019ils deviennent nus de leur peinture et balaie \u00e0 tes pieds jusqu\u2019\u00e0 ce que le sol disparaisse. Finis le vin, dans cet espace a\u00e9r\u00e9, retourne le soir au cimeti\u00e8re et danse \u00e0 travers les pierres tombales une danse lente de ton nom, visible seulement pour les oiseaux. \u00bb (\u00ab Broom\u00a0\u00bb, po\u00e8me, ma traduction).<\/p>\n<p><em>Write to the author : <a href=\"mailto:lea.farine@gmail.com\">lea.farine@gmail.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Cr\u00e9dit photo : \u00a9\u00a0http:\/\/esq.h-cdn.co<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Le Regard Libre N\u00b0 27 &#8211; L\u00e9a Farine \u00ab Le plus souvent, rien de particulier ne me tracasse, du 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