MEDI1TV Afrique : #Chronique_culture du 18-11-2024 - 18/11/2024
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00:00Welcome to Medea TV and books in this chronicle to talk about the last novel of the Haitian writer Gary Victor,
00:16Les Pages Blanches de la Détresse.
00:18This is a fiction, a rhythmic novel proposed by Gary Victor,
00:22but the subjects he addresses in Les Pages Blanches de la Détresse refer to a much lighter reality.
00:29His narrator, the writer Karl Vossier, goes through a bad phase on a personal level and can no longer write.
00:35Les Pages Désespérément Blanches haunts him while the characters he created in the past come to interfere in his life.
00:43I suggest you listen to Gary Victor.
00:46Les Pages Blanches de la Détresse is a novel that tells the stories of the writer who is in Les Pages Blanches,
00:56that is, after having produced several novels, he can no longer write.
01:02And he says to himself that his daily life, what he sees day by day, is able to feed a novel.
01:16But what happens while he begins to write his daily life,
01:21the characters around him, the characters he has known for years, months,
01:30he will have a confusion between reality and the characters he has created in his old novels.
01:41The writer Karl Vossier is therefore haunted by the departure of his wife and his daughter,
01:45of whom he has not heard from for weeks.
01:48On his desk, Les Pages Restent Désespérément Blanches,
01:51while all traces of inspiration and creativity seem to have deserted the novelist,
01:56yet he is one of the most famous in Haiti.
01:58While he is no longer able to invent stories, he receives the visit of 1,100,
02:03the border of the neighborhood, which erupts in his residence in Port-au-Prince
02:07with a few armed men in order to claim his place.
02:11I suggest you listen to Gary Victor.
02:13What this writer does is to try to understand and experience the suffering of others.
02:23Because when you don't experience the suffering of others, there is a huge break.
02:32When you don't experience the suffering of others, I think it is totally impossible to change things.
02:39And in fact, it is not only a problem of my community, of my community,
02:46I think it is a global problem.
02:48Because, looking at what is currently happening,
02:52do we understand the suffering of those who suffer in Ukraine, Gaza, Lebanon? No.
02:59And it is a global problem.
03:02And in fact, Les Pages Blanches, La Détresse, is fundamentally, for me,
03:07a novel about empathy, about the impossibility of understanding, of sharing the suffering of others.
03:16Powerful political and social satire, the novel puts together characters greater than nature,
03:21stuffed with magical realism and echoes of Haitian spiritual life.
03:25The work is crossed with unexpected extravagance and fascinating narrative bifurcation,
03:31which, in addition to ensuring tension, gives the book a sense of adventure.
03:36Let's listen one last time to Gary Victor.
03:38I was often in the syndrome of Les Pages Blanches,
03:41and it is always an extremely distressing moment, not painful, distressing for a writer,
03:49even if we know that, in the end, this moment of Les Pages Blanches feeds you somewhere.
03:55You see, because this moment of Les Pages Blanches forces you to look better, to observe better, to feel better.
04:04Because it can simply be a lack of feeling.
04:09It can also be a lack of image.
04:12So when we know it at this moment, we plunge fully into our environment.
04:18You see, it's like a diver who dives into deep water to try to bring back the pearls that are hidden.
04:29And finally, the new album of the poet, musician and singer Louis Chédid, entitled Rêveur, rêveur.
04:36At the age of 76, the singer always allows himself to dream while knowing how to keep an open eye on the world.
04:44In this new album, Louis Chédid has catchy melodies that sing above all about love, beauty and happiness.
04:51I suggest you listen to an excerpt from his new music video entitled Je suis là.
04:57In all the songs, there are obviously songs that talk about humanity, humanism, kindness among people, love, etc.
05:07But there are also other themes.
05:09There is also a song about people who leave their country, as happened to my family,
05:17because they could not stay for political reasons.
05:21And to come to a welcoming country like France, which is quite an extraordinary country.
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