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Le Dehors et le Dedans
Trébizonde, Kyoto, Ceylan, New York, Genève : Nicolas Bouvier n'a cessé d'écrire de la poésie, dans ses années de grands voyages comme dans ses périodes plus sédentaires. « [Elle] m'est plus nécessaire que la prose, expliquait-il, parce qu'elle est extrêmement directe, brutale – c'est du full-contact! » Pourtant, il ne fit paraître qu'un unique recueil de poèmes, Le dehors et le dedans. Composé de quarante-quatre textes écrits entre 1953 (le départ en voyage avec Thierry Vernet) et 1997 (quatre mois avant sa mort), ce recueil est paru pour la première fois en 1982, puis complété à quatre reprises et autant d'éditions. Bouvier s'y met à nu : de tous ses livres, « c'est l'ouvrage qui propose la plus ample et la plus intime traversée de son existence » (Ingrid Thobois).Postface d'Ingrid Thobois
112 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1998
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Nicolas Bouvier
102 books109 followersNicolas Bouvier (1929-1998) was a Swiss writer and photographer.
His travels all over the world incited him to recount his experiences and adventures. His work is marked by a commitment to report what he sees and feels, shorn of any pretence of omniscience, leading often to an intimacy bordering on the mystical. His journey from Geneva to Japan was in many ways prescient of the great eastward wave of hippies that occurred in the sixties and seventies - slow, meandering progress in a small, iconic car, carefully guarded idiosyncrasy, a rite of passage. Yet, it differs in that the travelogues this journey inspired contain deep reflections on man's intimate nature, written in a style very much aware and appreciative of the traditions and possibilities of the language he uses. (He wrote mainly in French, though he does mention writing a series of travel articles in English for a local journal during his stay in Ceylon.)
His most famous books are The Way of the World, The Japanese Chronicles, and The Scorpion Fish.
His travels all over the world incited him to recount his experiences and adventures. His work is marked by a commitment to report what he sees and feels, shorn of any pretence of omniscience, leading often to an intimacy bordering on the mystical. His journey from Geneva to Japan was in many ways prescient of the great eastward wave of hippies that occurred in the sixties and seventies - slow, meandering progress in a small, iconic car, carefully guarded idiosyncrasy, a rite of passage. Yet, it differs in that the travelogues this journey inspired contain deep reflections on man's intimate nature, written in a style very much aware and appreciative of the traditions and possibilities of the language he uses. (He wrote mainly in French, though he does mention writing a series of travel articles in English for a local journal during his stay in Ceylon.)
His most famous books are The Way of the World, The Japanese Chronicles, and The Scorpion Fish.
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January 31, 2012
Quand tu savais vivre de peu
ta vie t'accompagnait comme un essaim d'abeilles
et tu payais sans marchander
le prix exorbitant de la beauté
ta vie t'accompagnait comme un essaim d'abeilles
et tu payais sans marchander
le prix exorbitant de la beauté
September 3, 2016
Le seul qui sache rameuter cul et douceur
racines et errance
échelle et barreaux.
racines et errance
échelle et barreaux.
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