{"id":2822,"date":"2016-03-18T17:11:07","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T17:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/?p=2822"},"modified":"2016-03-18T17:11:07","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T17:11:07","slug":"alhambra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/?p=2822","title":{"rendered":"Alhambra"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Proverbe mauresque<\/em> :
\n…comme les maisons des maures\u00a0: <\/em>
\n\u00e0 l\u2019ext\u00e9rieur pleines d\u2019\u00e9cailles, <\/em>
\n\u00e0 l\u2019int\u00e9rieur se cache un vrai tr\u00e9sor…<\/em>
\nMoorish proverb:
\n… as the houses of the Moors:<\/em><\/strong>
\noutside full scales,<\/em><\/strong>
\ninside lies a treasure …<\/em><\/strong>
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\nMon histoire d\u2019amour avec l\u2019Alhambra de Grenade a commenc\u00e9 en ao\u00fbt 1969.
\nIl faisait une chaleur \u00e9crasante, et je me rappelle les vieilles Andalouses v\u00eatues de noir, agitant leur \u00e9ventail. L\u2019une d\u2019elle avait m\u00eame un petit ventilateur portatif \u00e0 pile, on n\u2019arr\u00eate pas le progr\u00e8s\u00a0!
\nToute cette eau, cette orgie d\u2019eau, il y en avait partout, o\u00f9 que l\u2019on aille… Cela m\u2019avait fait une tr\u00e8s forte impression. L\u2019escalier de l\u2019eau, o\u00f9 elle coule dans une rampe creuse\u00a0!
\nEt puis cette dentelle arabe, la pierre dentel\u00e9e, ce travail d\u2019une incroyable minutie, et en telle quantit\u00e9.
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\nMy love story with the Alhambra of Granada began in August 1969.<\/strong>
\nIt was a exhausting heat, and I remember the old dressed in black Andalusian women, waving their \u201cabanico\u201d. One of them had even a small portable fan with batteries, you can\u2019t stop progress!<\/strong>
\nAll this water, this orgy of water, it was everywhere, wherever you go … It made me a very strong impression. The staircase of the water, where it flows into a hollow ramp!<\/strong>
\nAnd this Arab lace, lace made with stones, this work of incredible detail, and in such amount.<\/strong>
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\nImpossible to find the translation of \u201c\u00e9ventail\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n

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In Spanish: "abanico", in French "\u00e9ventail", and in English?<\/p><\/div>\n

Parfois, il nous arrive de ressentir un sentiment de pl\u00e9nitude. Nous vivons un moment exceptionnel, intense, qui laissera des marques profondes. Pour moi, cela peut survenir \u00e0 la lecture d\u2019un roman particuli\u00e8rement bien \u00e9crit sur des sujets qui me tiennent \u00e0 c\u0153ur, ou lorsque je regarde un film, cela peut \u00eatre provoqu\u00e9 par de la musique ou une chanson, ou encore une rencontre avec des inconnus avec qui je me trouve en phase…
\nSans savoir toujours pourquoi ni comment, on atteint la perfection…
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\nSometimes, we feel a sense of fullness. We live an exceptional and intense moment, that will leave deep marks.\u00a0 For me, it can happen by reading a\u00a0 particularly well written novel about topics that are close to my heart. It can also happen when I watch a movie, or may be caused by an encounter with unknown people with whom I feel in phase. ..<\/strong>
\nWithout ever knowing how or why, we reach perfection …
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Il est peut-\u00eatre plus facile, plus \u00e9vident, d\u2019\u00eatre tr\u00e8s \u00e9mu par la d\u00e9couverte d\u2019un lieu naturel particuli\u00e8rement grandiose. Quand le lieu en question a \u00e9t\u00e9 con\u00e7u par des \u00eatres humains, il leur faut un sacr\u00e9 talent, un sacr\u00e9 g\u00e9nie, pour \u00eatre \u00e9blouissants\u00a0!
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\nIt may be easier, obviously, to be seized with emotion by discovering a particularly grandiose natural place. When the place in question has been imagined and planned by human beings, they had to be great talented, to be genius, to be awesome!
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Une \u0153uvre litt\u00e9raire, musicale, un film… ont plus de facilit\u00e9s \u00e0 nous \u00e9mouvoir\u00a0: on se laisse p\u00e9n\u00e9trer \u00e0 mesure que la narration prend de l\u2019ampleur, on plonge jusqu\u2019\u00e0 l\u2019intimit\u00e9 avec le r\u00e9cit.
\nQuand on visite l\u2019Alhambra, on \u201ctombe\u201d sur une immense \u0153uvre d\u2019art \u00e9blouissante, pouss\u00e9e jusqu\u2019\u00e0 la perfection.
\nAlors que je cherchais quels mots pourraient traduire mon \u00e9merveillement, j\u2019ai pens\u00e9 \u00e0 l\u2019\u0153uvre de Tony Hillerman parlant de \u201chozro<\/em>\u201d, un terme navajo difficile \u00e0 traduire, entre beaut\u00e9, harmonie et \u00e9quilibre.
\nPour tenter d\u2019exprimer l\u2019admiration ressentie il y a longtemps \u00e0 S\u00e9ville, et ici \u00e0 l\u2019Alhambra de Grenade, je conserve le mot hozro<\/em>.
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\nIt\u2019s more easy to be moved with a literary or musical work, with a movie … As the story becomes more significant, one dives into intimacy with the story.<\/strong>
\nWhen visiting the Alhambra, one \u201cfalls\u201d into a huge dazzling work of art, carried to perfection.<\/strong>
\nWhile I was looking for what words could translate my amazement, I thought of Tony Hillerman\u2019s work speaking about \u201chozro<\/em>\u201d, a Navajo word that is hard to translate, that is between beauty, harmony and balance.<\/strong>
\nI try to express my admiration long ago in Seville, and here at the Alhambra in Granada, by using the word hozro<\/em>.
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Presque un demi-si\u00e8cle plus tard (oooops\u00a0!), je savais que j\u2019allais \u00eatre \u00e0 nouveau\u00a0 boulevers\u00e9e par la visite de l\u2019Alhambra, et j\u2019ai voulu conna\u00eetre davantage l\u2019histoire de ces lieux avant d\u2019y aller.\"\"<\/a>
\nVous pouvez lire ici<\/a> ou ailleurs ce qui concerne Al Andalus, nom donn\u00e9 \u00e0 une r\u00e9gion sous domination musulmane du VIII\u00e8 si\u00e8cle \u00e0 1492 (chute de Grenade). On parle de riche \u00e9panouissement culturel pendant ces quelques si\u00e8cles. Des vestiges trouv\u00e9s \u00e0 N\u00eemes permettent de penser \u00e0 une extension d\u2019Al Andalus jusqu\u2019\u00e0 cette cit\u00e9.
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\nAlmost half a century later (oooops!), I knew I would be deeply touched again by the visit of the Alhambra, and I wanted to know more about the history of the place before going there.<\/strong>
\nYou can read here<\/a> or elsewhere regarding Al Andalus, the name given to a region under Muslim rule from the eighth century until 1492 (fall of Granada). It\u2019s talken about rich cultural development during these centuries. Remains found in Nimes suggest an extension of Al Andalus until this city.
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Mais entre le XIII\u00e8 et le XV\u00e8 si\u00e8cle, la dynastie des Nasrides sait que le territoire d\u2019Al Andalus, d\u00e9j\u00e0 r\u00e9duit, est condamn\u00e9 \u00e0 dispara\u00eetre. C\u2019est sans doute une des raisons pour construire l\u2019Alhambra, bastion militaire mais aussi s\u00e9jour d\u2019une immense beaut\u00e9. C\u2019est aussi parce que le sultan d\u00e9sire quitter l\u2019Albaicin pour la colline de Sabika, mieux situ\u00e9e.
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\nBut between the thirteenth and fifteenth century, the dynasty of Nasrid knows that the territory of Al Andalus, already reduced, is condemned to disappearance. This is probably one of the reasons for building the Alhambra, military stronghold but also stay of immense beauty. This is also because the sultan wants to leave the Albaicin hill for Sabika, better located.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Al Andalus<\/p><\/div>\n

Mon ignorance de la langue arabe ne me permet pas de savoir s’il s’agit bien du nom \u00ab\u00a0Al Andalus\u00a0\u00bb dans la calligraphie ci-dessus, mais pourquoi google se tromperait ?
\nBecause of my ignorance of the Arabic language, I don’t know if it is really the name \u00ab\u00a0Al Andalus\u00a0\u00bb in the above calligraphy, but why google would be wrong?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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