Les coïncidences exagérées
H.H.
C'était un 17 septembre, à Paris. Hubert Haddad avait vingt ans. Debout sur le rebord de sa fenêtre, au quatrième étage d'un immeuble de la rue Pastourelle, complètement nu, il allait se jeter dans le vide. Un jeune homme est entré par hasard juste à ce moment-là, un ami. Il est allé vers lui, et, à la manière d'un ange, il a su trouver des mots simples pour le détourner de ce geste qui lui aurait été fatal.
À partir de ce jour-là, ce «jour de la vérité», Hubert Haddad, en poète et en peintre, dessine ici un autoportrait vibrant, énigmatique, presque halluciné. Échos d'un jour lointain à un présent brûlant, étranges coïncidences qui font réapparaître les êtres essentiels de sa vie, passion pour la littérature et les mots qui vous sauvent. Un magnifique récit qui éclaire toute son œuvre.
- Traits et portraits
- Paru le 01/09/2016
- Genre : Littérature française
- 192 pages - 140 x 205 mm
- EAN : 9782715244061
- ISBN : 9782715244061
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It was September 17th in Paris. Hubert Haddad was 20 years old and perched on a windowsill on the fifth floor of a building on the rue Pastourelle. Completely naked and about to jump into the abyss, a young man and friend, entered by chance at that exact moment. He walked towards Hubert and knew just what to say to get him to come down.
From that day onwards, Hubert Haddad, as a poet and painter, creates a vibrant, enigmatic and almost hallucinatory auto-portrait in hopes of discovering what drove him to nearly commit suicide. The text pulls from his past with searing episodes from childhood. The present day is also confronted with scenes such as those from the night of the attacks on November 13th 2015. That fateful night Hubert ran to the hospital to his brother’s bedside who had only a few seconds left to live. While at the same time, only a few meters away, young people were being assassinated.
Poet, novelist and essayist, Hubert Haddad is the author of several important works; most notably, Palestine (which received the Renaudot Poche and the cinq continents de la Francophonie prizes), the noteworthy Peintre d’éventail (winning the Louis Guilloux and Grand Prix SGDL prizes) in addition to Mā.
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