Culture et coups de cœur

Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood): a beautiful, surprising, humorous and deeply moving movie.

Nedjma (Kateb Yacine) : "un des romans les plus lumineux qu'il nous soit donné de lire" (G. Carpentier). Je ne saurais pas dire mieux. Nedjma, c'est l'astre sombre, la femme-patrie, une œuvre fascinante et mélodieuse. Point intéressant : le livre (la matière) est lui-même souple comme s'il souhaitait épouser les courbes mouvantes d'un roman qui se dérobe sans cesse.

Conteur, conteuse, frère ou sœur de mots (signes)

N.B. : La lenteur donne de la saveur aux mots.

In defense of fiction

Fiction has often been called a lie and seen as inferior to reality. But it helps us to accept reality. A telltale example: Waltz with Bashir. The animated cartoons shows us the truth, or a truth, and makes it more understandable, acceptable to us than the film archives of the end. The last minutes seem more unreal than the whole movie although it is reality. The role of fiction is to give us access to some truth that we cannot grasp or cannot accept in a normal way.

Conclusion: a beautiful movie which you must absolutely see.

Seconde conclusion: Fiction, Art, is necessary to us. It is not something unconnected to reality; on the contrary it helps us to live more completely in reality. It is useless in the way that we can survive without it unlike food. But precisely it is thus what makes us human.