{"id":10957,"date":"2022-01-11T07:55:57","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T07:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/?p=10957"},"modified":"2022-01-11T07:55:57","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T07:55:57","slug":"pauvre-ou-riche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/?p=10957","title":{"rendered":"Pauvre ou riche"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

J\u2019ai trouv\u00e9 dans mes archives d\u2019autres auteurs dont les pr\u00e9occupations rejoignent celles de Nell Doff \u00e9voqu\u00e9e la semaine derni\u00e8re.<\/strong>

I have found in my archives other authors whose concerns overlap with those of Nell Doff mentioned last week.<\/strong>
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Dans \u00ab\u00a0les couleurs troubles de l\u2019enfance\u00a0\u00bb<\/em>, Rapha\u00ebl Romn\u00e9e, au long d\u2019une autobiographie \u00e9crite \u00e0 la troisi\u00e8me personne, prend lui aussi ses distances avec Zola\u00a0:<\/strong>

In \u00ab\u00a0les couleurs troubles de l\u2019enfance\u00a0\u00bb<\/em>, Rapha\u00ebl Romn\u00e9e, through an autobiography written in the third person, also distances himself from Zola:<\/strong>

\u00ab\u00a0D\u00e8s son entr\u00e9e en cinqui\u00e8me, il acquiert la conviction que son destin est scell\u00e9, que, par h\u00e9r\u00e9dit\u00e9, il est menac\u00e9, condamn\u00e9\u00a0; un jour, comme sa m\u00e8re, il perdra la t\u00eate, il deviendra fou. Il est vrai qu\u2019il a d\u00e9j\u00e0 lu une grande partie de la saga des Rougon-Macquart (\u2026). Zola y d\u00e9crit minutieusement les tares dont sont atteints les personnages, tares dont l\u2019origine est \u00e0 rechercher dans un d\u00e9terminisme social et psychologique implacable. (\u2026) Ce va-et-vient entre la fiction et son quotidien conduit l\u2019adolescent \u00e0 chercher des parades, \u00e0 secr\u00e9ter des antidotes. Il surveille ses r\u00e9actions, contr\u00f4le progressivement son impulsivit\u00e9.
(\u2026) Pourtant, (\u2026) il n\u2019accepte pas qu\u2019une h\u00e9r\u00e9dit\u00e9 fatale conditionne \u00e0 jamais ses faits et gestes, sa vie, sa mort. Quelques ann\u00e9es plus tard c\u2019est dans l\u2019existentialisme de Jean-Paul Sartre qu\u2019il puisera le contrepoison \u00e0 cet attrait morbide. Ce sont les actes d\u2019un \u00eatre humain qui forment l\u2019essence de la vie, la voie obligatoire d\u2019un itin\u00e9raire programm\u00e9 n\u2019est pas in\u00e9luctable. Une nouvelle fois c\u2019est dans la litt\u00e9rature qu\u2019il trouve des r\u00e9ponses d\u00e9cisives, qu\u2019il extrait une l\u00e9gitimit\u00e9 \u00e0 sa propre existence. Seul, l\u2019enfant, victime filiale de la maladie mentale de sa m\u00e8re, victime ignor\u00e9e et insoup\u00e7onn\u00e9e, a trouv\u00e9 les chemins d\u2019un \u00e9quilibre, de son \u00e9quilibre, f\u00fbt-il pr\u00e9caire<\/em>.\u00a0\u00bb<\/strong>

\u00ab\u00a0As soon as he enters fifth grade, he becomes convinced that his destiny is sealed, that, by heredity, he is threatened, condemned; one day, like his mother, he will lose his mind, he will go mad. It is true that he has already read a large part of the Rougon-Macquart saga (\u2026). Zola painstakingly describes the defects with which the characters are afflicted, defects whose origin is to be sought in an implacable social and psychological determinism. (\u2026) This back and forth between fiction and his daily life leads the teenager to seek remedies, to secrete antidotes. He watches his reactions, gradually controls his impulsiveness.
(\u2026) Yet (\u2026) he does not accept that a fatal inheritance forever conditions his actions, his life, his death. A few years later it was in the existentialism of Jean-Paul Sartre that he drew the counterpoison for this morbid attraction. It is the actions of a human being that forms the essence of life, the obligatory path of a programmed route is not inevitable. Once again it is in literature that he finds decisive answers, that he extracts legitimacy from his own existence. Alone, the child, a filial victim of his mother’s mental illness, an unknown and unsuspected victim, has found the paths to balance, to his balance, however precarious it may be.<\/em>\u00a0\u00bb<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Le narrateur parle de contrepoison : ses lectures l\u2019ont d\u2019abord condamn\u00e9, puis sauv\u00e9. Je suis heureuse qu\u2019il d\u00e9nonce ce soi-disant d\u00e9terminisme implacable qui chez Zola m\u2019exasp\u00e8re depuis longtemps.<\/strong>

The narrator speaks of counterpoison: his readings first condemned him, then saved him. I am happy that he denounces this so-called relentless determinism that Zola has long infuriated me.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cette citation (avec des coupes sombres pour limiter la longueur de mes publications) donne envie, je l\u2019esp\u00e8re, de lire tout l\u2019ouvrage de Romn\u00e9e : je vous le conseille vivement, c\u2019est de plus une plaisante occasion d\u2019encourager le travail consid\u00e9rable des \u00c9dtions Plein Chant.<\/strong>

This quote (with massive cuts to limit the length of my publications) makes you want, I hope, to read the whole book of Romn\u00e9e: I strongly recommend it, it is also a pleasant opportunity to encourage the considerable work by \u00c9dtions Plein Chant.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Je vous ai parl\u00e9 de la mis\u00e8re extr\u00eame que Neel Doff a connue : elle a r\u00e9ussi \u00e0 sortir de sa condition, j\u2019ai plaisir \u00e0 le rappeler – m\u00eame si le souvenir de son enfance l\u2019a hant\u00e9e toute sa vie. Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Saenen \u00e9voque cette femme remarquable dans le \u00ab blog des lettres belges francophones \u00bb<\/a>. Voici le d\u00e9but de son article :<\/strong>

I told you about the extreme misery that Neel Doff knew: she managed to get out of her condition, I enjoy reminding it – even if the memory of her childhood haunted her all her life. Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Saenen mentions this remarkable woman in the \u00ab blog des lettres belges francophones \u00bb<\/a>. Here is the beginning of his article:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u00ab\u00a0On doit \u00e0 Charles P\u00e9guy d\u2019avoir \u00e9t\u00e9 parmi les premiers \u00e0 op\u00e9rer un distinguo entre la pauvret\u00e9 et la mis\u00e8re. Il expliquait ainsi dans L\u2019Argent que si la premi\u00e8re a tout d\u2019un purgatoire qui peut, malgr\u00e9 sa duret\u00e9, s\u2019av\u00e9rer transitoire, la seconde s\u2019apparente \u00e0 un enfer au seuil duquel est command\u00e9 l\u2019abandon de toute esp\u00e9rance de la part de ceux qu\u2019elle frappe, ronge, avilit, tue.<\/em>\u00a0\u00bb

\u00ab\u00a0We owe to Charles P\u00e9guy for being among the first to distinguish between poverty and misery. He thus explained in L’Argent that if the first has everything of a purgatory which can, despite its harshness, turn out to be transitory, the second is akin to a hell at the threshold of which the abandonment of all hope of religion is commanded part of those whom it strikes, gnaws, degrades, kills.\u00a0<\/em>\u00bb<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Entre mis\u00e8re et pauvret\u00e9, Paul et moi n\u2019avons choisi ni l\u2019un ni l\u2019autre. Nous observons nos proches, Laurent adepte de la d\u00e9croissance, et, dans une d\u00e9marche proche, S\u00e9b qui pr\u00e9conise la sobri\u00e9t\u00e9 heureuse. Je gratte avec la lame d\u2019un couteau le contact de la bouilloire \u00e9lectrique quand elle ne veut plus faire son boulot : nous aurions pu la jeter il y a plusieurs ann\u00e9es, et en acheter une neuve sans que cela d\u00e9s\u00e9quilibre notre budget, c\u2019est \u00e9vident. Mais il est moins \u00e9vident pour moi de remplir les poubelles ou les d\u00e9ch\u00e8teries, de contribuer \u00e0 asphyxier les zones de recyclage ou de destruction des d\u00e9chets.<\/strong>

Between misery and poverty, Paul and I chose neither. We observe our relatives, Laurent follower of degrowth, and, in a similar approach, S\u00e9b who advocates happy sobriety. I scrape the contact of the electric kettle with the blade of a knife when it no longer wants to do its job: we could have thrown it away several years ago, and bought a new one without this unbalancing our budget, it\u2019s obvious. But it is less obvious for me to fill garbage cans or recycling centers, to help suffocate recycling or waste destruction areas.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nous avons c\u00e9d\u00e9 \u00e0 l\u2019achat d\u2019un t\u00e9l\u00e9phone portable, petit mod\u00e8le qui ne pr\u00e9pare pas le caf\u00e9, ni ne prend notre tension art\u00e9rielle ni des photos faute de carte ad\u00e9quate. On trouve ce petit outil \u00e0 tr\u00e8s bas prix, alors que sa fabrication a un impact important sur la plan\u00e8te, \u00e0 cause de ses composants. Et aussi de la qualit\u00e9 de l\u2019eau utilis\u00e9e : le secret de son faible co\u00fbt, c\u2019est donc tout simplement la quantit\u00e9.<\/strong>

We gave in to the purchase of a cell phone, a small model that does not prepare coffee, does not neither take our blood pressure or nor pictures for lack of an adequate card. This little tool can be found at a very low price, while its manufacture has a significant impact on the planet, because of its components. And also the quality of the water used: the secret of its low cost, therefore, is quite simply the quantity.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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La cascade de Luiset<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Cela dit, ne nous leurrons pas, les grosses multinationales qui pratiquent avec d\u00e9termination le pillage des ressources naturelles ont un autre impact. Conscients des probl\u00e8mes environnementaux, Lolo, S\u00e9b, Paul et moi, et d\u2019innombrables autres, nous \u00e9vitons d\u2019\u00eatre complices, par exemple dans le choix des produits de consommation, mais \u00e0 ce jeu-l\u00e0 il est difficile de ne pas \u00eatre perdant. Le colibri est gentil et motiv\u00e9, mais des milliards de colibris ne p\u00e8sent pas le poids de quelques rouleaux compresseurs.<\/strong>

Having said that, let’s face it, the big multinationals that are determined to plunder natural resources have another impact. Aware of environmental problems, Lolo, S\u00e9b, Paul and I, and countless others, we avoid being complicit, for example in the choice of consumer products, but in this game it is difficult not to be a loser . The hummingbird is kind and motivated, but billions of hummingbirds are no match for a few road rollers (steam rollers?).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Trouvez-vous que je m\u00e9lange tout, Neel Doff d\u2019un c\u00f4t\u00e9, les probl\u00e8mes environnementaux de l\u2019autre ? Pour moi, il y a un lien, et c\u2019est Neel qui le fournit.<\/strong>

Do you think I’m mixing everything up, Neel Doff on the one hand, environmental issues on the other? For me, there is a connection, and Neel provides it.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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En sortant de sa condition mis\u00e9rable, Neel Doff d\u00e9couvre la mis\u00e8re intellectuelle. \u00ab\u00a0(\u2026) je commen\u00e7ais \u00e0 comprendre que si la mis\u00e8re est la plus grande de toutes les calamit\u00e9s, il y a aussi d\u2019autres douleurs que celles du ventre qui crie, et que ce n\u2019est pas tout que d\u2019avoir les pieds au chaud.
Avant mes \u00e9tudes, tout se manifestait \u00e0 moi par des sensations, sur lesquelles je ne parvenais pas \u00e0 mettre des mots, et, quand j\u2019en trouvais, je n\u2019osais les dire, me croyant b\u00eate et absurde.\u00a0\u00bb<\/em><\/strong>

Coming out of her miserable condition, Neel Doff discovers intellectual misery. \u00ab\u00a0(\u2026) I began to understand that if misery is the greatest of all calamities, there are also pains other than those of the belly which cries, and that it is not all that to have the feet warm.
Before my studies, everything manifested itself to me through sensations, on which I could not quite put words, and, when I found any, I dared not say them, believing myself to be stupid and absurd.\u00a0\u00bb<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Le monde \u00e9volue autour de nous \u00e0 une vitesse fulgurante, et la pand\u00e9mie en cours n\u2019est qu\u2019un des aspects de ces transformations. Je trouve indispensable de savoir ce qui se passe, j\u2019ai une soif immense de connaissance, d\u2019apprendre jusqu\u2019\u00e0 plus soif. J\u2019ai peur des comportements irr\u00e9fl\u00e9chis dus \u00e0 l\u2019ignorance.<\/strong>

The world around us is changing at breakneck speed, and the ongoing pandemic is just one aspect of these transformations. I find it essential to know what is going on, I have an immense thirst for knowledge, to learn until my thirst was quenched. I am afraid of thoughtless behavior due to ignorance.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Je ne connais pas \u00ab\u00a0Le Village retrouv\u00e9, ethnologie de l’int\u00e9rieur\u00a0\u00bb<\/em>, \u00e9crit par Pascal Dibie, ethnologue. Mais je vais relire son texte \u00e9crit pr\u00e8s de trente ans plus tard, \u00ab\u00a0Le village m\u00e9tamorphos\u00e9, r\u00e9volution dans la France profonde\u00a0\u00bb<\/em>. L\u00e0 comme ailleurs, tout change, on a la sensation que tout nous \u00e9chappe\u2026 Pascal Dibie y cite Walter Benjamin\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0\u2026Nous sommes devenus pauvres. Nous avons sacrifi\u00e9, morceau apr\u00e8s morceau, l\u2019h\u00e9ritage de l\u2019humanit\u00e9 et souvent nous l\u2019avons mis au clou pour le centi\u00e8me de sa valeur afin de recevoir en contrepartie la petite monnaie de l\u2019actuel. (\u2026) L\u2019humanit\u00e9 se pr\u00e9pare \u00e0 survivre s\u2019il le faut \u00e0 la culture. Et l\u2019essentiel c\u2019est qu\u2019elle le fait en riant. Il est fort probable qu\u2019ici ou l\u00e0 ce rire rende un son barbare.\u00a0\u00bb<\/em><\/strong>

I do not know \u00ab\u00a0Le Village retrouv\u00e9, ethnologie de l’int\u00e9rieur\u00a0\u00bb,<\/em> written by Pascal Dibie, ethnologist. But I am going to reread his text, written almost thirty years later, \u00ab\u00a0Le village m\u00e9tamorphos\u00e9, r\u00e9volution dans la France profonde\u00a0\u00bb<\/em>. There, as elsewhere, everything changes, we have the feeling that everything escapes us\u2026 Pascal Dibie quotes Walter Benjamin: \u00ab\u00a0\u2026 We have become poor. We have sacrificed, piece by piece, the heritage of mankind and often we pledged it down for a hundredth of its value in order to receive in return the small change of the present. (\u2026) Mankind is preparing to survive if necessary to culture. And the main thing is that it does it while laughing. It is very likely that here and there this laughter makes a barbaric sound.\u00a0\u00bb<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Je trouve n\u00e9cessaire de regarder ce monde qui change, m\u00eame si cela peut \u00eatre angoissant : j\u2019ai besoin de le comprendre. Ces recherches multiples et ces consid\u00e9rations inqui\u00e8tes ne nous emp\u00eachent pas de profiter de notre existence tranquille. Je ne vous raconte pas nos nombreuses balades avec des mots, mais avec des photos\u2026<\/strong>

I find it necessary to watch this changing world, even if it can be scary: I need to understand it. These multiple searches and these worried considerations do not prevent us from enjoying our quiet existence. I’m not telling you about our many walks with words, but with photos \u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ce blog est h\u00e9berg\u00e9 par Dom\u00a0: avez-vous remarqu\u00e9 l\u2019absence de publicit\u00e9\u00a0? C\u2019est \u00e0 lui qu\u2019on la doit\u2026 Je lui ai dit que certains de mes lecteurs ne pouvaient plus acc\u00e9der au blog, alors il a fait un travail consid\u00e9rable de mise \u00e0 jour (entre autre, 5 Go de photos \u00e0 restaurer\u00a0!). J\u2019ai maintenant acc\u00e8s \u00e0 une mise \u00e0 jour de wordpress que je ne ma\u00eetrise pas du tout, d\u2019o\u00f9 les changements tr\u00e8s visibles\u00a0! Bonne lecture, quand m\u00eame\u2026<\/strong>

This blog is hosted by Dom: Did you notice the lack of advertising? He is whom we owe \u2026 I told him that some of my readers could no longer access the blog, so he did a lot of updating (among others, 5 GB of photos to restore!). I now have access to a wordpress update that I have no knowledge of at all, hence the very visible changes! Happy reading, anyway \u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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J\u2019ai trouv\u00e9 dans mes archives d\u2019autres auteurs dont les pr\u00e9occupations rejoignent celles de Nell Doff \u00e9voqu\u00e9e la semaine derni\u00e8re.I have found in my archives other authors whose concerns overlap with those of Nell Doff mentioned last week. Dans \u00ab\u00a0les couleurs … Continuer la lecture →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10957"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10957"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10981,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10957\/revisions\/10981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}