{"id":7004,"date":"2016-10-17T12:20:53","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T12:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.claude-arnaud.com\/fr\/?p=7004"},"modified":"2019-12-15T16:21:58","modified_gmt":"2019-12-15T16:21:58","slug":"when-art-mattered-by-bruce-fleming-quand-lart-comptait-par-bruce-fleming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.claude-arnaud.com\/fr\/archives\/7004","title":{"rendered":"When Art Mattered, by Bruce FLEMING\/ Quand l’art comptait, par Bruce FLEMING"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Washington Free Beacon publishes<\/strong>, on October 16, 2016<\/strong>, an online review, signed Bruce Fleming<\/strong> of \u00ab\u00a0Jean COCTEAU, a Life<\/strong><\/em><\/span>\u00ab\u00a0<\/strong>,\"\"<\/a> by Claude ARNAUD<\/strong><\/span>:<\/p>\n

\u00ab\u00a0This is an exhaustive and exhausting book<\/strong>\u2014including all the people COCTEAU<\/strong> rubbed shoulders with, famous and semi-famous names jostling on the page to re-create a world that was brought to an end by the dawning of our world in the aftermath of World War II. But at least it\u2019s an evocation of a vanished era as if it still mattered\u2014and that\u2019s good.<\/strong> <\/span>You want intensity from the person telling you the story you\u2019re listening to; ARNAUD<\/strong><\/span> is nothing if not intense. After all, if it\u2019s narrated with ironic distance, absolutely nobody will care. And there is no distance here: it\u2019s like the poet falling into the water mirror. All of a sudden, there you are, side by side with PROUST,<\/span> GIDE, Anna de NOAILLES,<\/span> NIJINSKY, STRAVINSKY,<\/span> PICASSO, and dozens of lesser lights (…) <\/strong>The artistic world of \u201cl\u2019entre-les-deux-guerres\u201d Paris is lovingly chronicled… and rendered by his translators in supple English that doesn\u2019t read like a translation<\/strong> (…) The charm of ARNAUD<\/strong><\/span>\u2019s book is that he seems to re-create the adolescent intensity of Cocteau\u2019s world<\/strong>, the one where the latest show at the Ballets Russes<\/strong><\/span> was all anybody talked about, and where Being Part of It All was the only thing that mattered. Reading it is like diving down to Atlantis.<\/strong><\/span> Take a weekend and take the plunge. When you get back, there will be a moment where you wonder where you\u2019ve been\u2014and where you are.\u00a0\u00bb<\/strong><\/p>\n

READ THIS ONLINE REVIEW<\/a>… READ MORE<\/a>…<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>Le WASHINGTON FREE BEACON<\/strong> publie en ligne, le 16\"\"<\/a> octobre 2016<\/strong>, un article de Bruce FLEMING<\/strong><\/span> sur la traduction anglaise de la biographie de JEAN COCTEAU<\/strong> par Claude ARNAUD,<\/strong>\u00a0publi\u00e9e par Yale University Pres<\/span><\/span>:<\/p>\n

\u00ab\u00a0Voici un livre \u00e0 la fois exhaustif et \u00e9puisant<\/strong><\/span>, qui comprend\u00a0 tous les gens que COCTEAU<\/strong> c\u00f4toya, vedettes et semi-vedettes se bousculant\u00a0 pour recr\u00e9er un monde disparu \u00e0 la fin de la Seconde Guerre Mondiale<\/strong>. Mais au moins ce monde est-il \u00e9voqu\u00e9 comme s’il comptait toujours autant – et c’est une bonne chose. Vous attendez de l’intensit\u00e9, de la part des gens qui vous racontent un histoire, et Claude ARNAUD est tout sauf mou<\/strong><\/span>. Tout le monde se d\u00e9sint\u00e9resse d’une histoire racont\u00e9e avec ironie et distance – et il n’y a aucune distance ici. Vous tombez dans le miroir d’eau de Cocteau et vous retrouvez c\u00f4te \u00e0 c\u00f4te avec PROUST<\/span>, GIDE, Anna de NOAILLES<\/span>, NIJINSKY, STRAVINSKY<\/span>, PICASSO\u00a0<\/strong> (…) Le monde artistique de \u201cl\u2019entre-les-deux-guerres\u201d parisien est chroniqu\u00e9 avec gr\u00e2ce et\u00a0 rendu avec souplesse par les traductrices, si bien que le tout n’a pas l’air issu d’une traduction<\/strong> (…) Le charme du livre d’ARNAUD<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0 tient \u00e0 sa recr\u00e9ation de l’intensit\u00e9 adolescente du monde de COCTEAU<\/strong>, celui ou tout le monde parlait du dernier spectacle des BALLETS RUSSES<\/strong> et o\u00f9 \u00eatre dans le coup, artistiquement, \u00e9tait vraiment la seule chose qui comptait<\/strong>. Lire cette biographie c’est plonger dans l’Atlandide. Prenez un week-end et plongez t\u00eate la premi\u00e8re. En en revenant \u00e0 aujourd’hui, vous vous demanderez dans quel monde vous naviguiez, et dans lequel vous vous r\u00e9veillez.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Pour l’article in extenso (en anglais)<\/a>… Pour en savoir plus<\/a>…<\/p>\n

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The Washington Free Beacon publishes, on October 16, 2016, an online review, signed Bruce Fleming of \u00ab\u00a0Jean COCTEAU, a Life\u00ab\u00a0, by Claude ARNAUD: \u00ab\u00a0This is an exhaustive and exhausting book\u2014including all the people COCTEAU rubbed shoulders with, famous and semi-famous names jostling on the page to re-create a world that was brought to an end […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","count-0","even alt","author-claude-arnaud","last"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.claude-arnaud.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.claude-arnaud.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.claude-arnaud.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.claude-arnaud.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.claude-arnaud.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7004"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.claude-arnaud.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10226,"href":"https:\/\/www.claude-arnaud.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7004\/revisions\/10226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.claude-arnaud.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.claude-arnaud.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.claude-arnaud.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}