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Michel Jean est un écrivain innu de la communauté de Mashteuiatsh, au Québec. Il a publié onze romans. Kukum, publié chez Libre Expression au Canada, Depaysage et Points en France, a remporté le Prix France-Québec 2020 et les prix VLEEL, Nature Nomade de même que le Prix du meilleur roman des lecteurs et libraires Points 2023.

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Michel Jean Il faut écrire, tout simplement. Personnellement, je commence par avoir une idée claire de l'histoire. le début, le milieu et al fin. Ce que je veux d…moreIl faut écrire, tout simplement. Personnellement, je commence par avoir une idée claire de l'histoire. le début, le milieu et al fin. Ce que je veux dire, je pense à la personnalité des personnages etc... Ensuite je commence à écrire. Ça peut changer à mesure qu'on avance dans le récit et c'est oki. Il faut écrire sur une base régulière et ça va tout seul.(less)
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Le vent en parle encore

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La belle mélancolie

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“The universe is unraveling. It still is. We won the day. We won the battle. We won whatever unit of measurement you care to say that we won. We returned to the dangerous equilibrium we had before, which we can only assume, or hope, or wish is better. But, of course, we did not stop the unraveling of the universe. The universe is not a thing that is, it is not a thing at all. It is the very action of its going. It is, in fact, its own dissolves and our lives – the entire span of human existence going back and back and, if we are lucky, forward and forward – the entire span is spent within this dissolve.

So look at the fleeting stars with fleeting eyes, and feel how the earth beneath you gives. It is all a temporary manifestation of particles, and it is all unraveling back to particulate silence. The bustle of the human day will come and will go. And then there will be night.

But how beautiful these moments within the dissolve! What a temporary perfection we can find within this passing w
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“Ils ont pensé qu'en les dépossédant de leur langue, ils en feraient des Blancs. Mais un Innu qui parle français reste un Innu. Avec une blessure de plus.”
Michel Jean, Kukum

“C’est une feuille qui ondoie, portée par la brise d’automne. Le vent a pris tout son temps. Il l’a tourmentée depuis les premières chaleurs du printemps, quand elle n’était encore qu’un brin de verdure au bout d’une longue branche. Chaque jour, le vent faisait danser la fine tige. Insouciante.”
Michel Jean, Tiohtiá : ke

“Grand-mère, voilà comment mes petits-enfants et mes arrière-petits-enfants m'appellent. Voilà ce que je suis devenue, moi qui rêvais d'être kukum.”
Michel Jean, Kukum

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“The universe is unraveling. It still is. We won the day. We won the battle. We won whatever unit of measurement you care to say that we won. We returned to the dangerous equilibrium we had before, which we can only assume, or hope, or wish is better. But, of course, we did not stop the unraveling of the universe. The universe is not a thing that is, it is not a thing at all. It is the very action of its going. It is, in fact, its own dissolves and our lives – the entire span of human existence going back and back and, if we are lucky, forward and forward – the entire span is spent within this dissolve.

So look at the fleeting stars with fleeting eyes, and feel how the earth beneath you gives. It is all a temporary manifestation of particles, and it is all unraveling back to particulate silence. The bustle of the human day will come and will go. And then there will be night.

But how beautiful these moments within the dissolve! What a temporary perfection we can find within this passing world! Everything good ever done! Everything good that was done today, and all the good people doing it, and back and back and forward and forward, all of that beauty within a universe unraveling.

Be proud of your place in the cosmos. It is small, and yet it is. How unlikely! How fantastic! And stupid. And excellent”
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