{"id":26923,"date":"2026-07-14T14:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T10:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nashernews.com\/26923\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T14:59:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T10:59:29","slug":"26923","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nashernews.com\/fr\/26923\/","title":{"rendered":"Quand Joyce S&rsquo;est Tu&#8230; Et Proust Aussi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">James Joyce et Marcel Proust demeurent deux g\u00e9ants de la litt\u00e9rature du vingti\u00e8me si\u00e8cle qui ont r\u00e9volutionn\u00e9 la repr\u00e9sentation de la conscience humaine. Bien qu&rsquo;ils aient v\u00e9cu \u00e0 Paris \u00e0 la m\u00eame \u00e9poque, leur unique rencontre s&rsquo;est d\u00e9roul\u00e9e lors d&rsquo;un d\u00eener mondain organis\u00e9 par les m\u00e9c\u00e8nes Sydney et Violet Schiff le 18 mai 1922, en pr\u00e9sence de cr\u00e9ateurs illustres comme Pablo Picasso et Igor Stravinsky. Toutefois, cette confrontation entre l&rsquo;auteur d&rsquo;Ulysse et le cr\u00e9ateur d&rsquo;\u00c0 la recherche du temps perdu n&rsquo;a pas pris la forme d&rsquo;un dialogue entre g\u00e9nies. Les r\u00e9cits de cette nuit divergent, mais tous confirment que les deux \u00e9crivains sont arriv\u00e9s avec un retard consid\u00e9rable. Joyce, dans un \u00e9tat d&rsquo;\u00e9bri\u00e9t\u00e9 visible, a bu du champagne en silence avant de s&rsquo;endormir. Quelques heures plus tard, Proust a fait son apparition, v\u00eatu avec \u00e9l\u00e9gance mais l&rsquo;air p\u00e2le et malade.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">La conversation r\u00e9elle entre ces deux titans des lettres s&rsquo;est r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9e \u00e9tonnamment banale et d\u00e9pourvue de toute profondeur artistique. Selon le romancier Ford Madox Ford, leur \u00e9change s&rsquo;est limit\u00e9 \u00e0 un aveu mutuel d&rsquo;ignorance litt\u00e9raire. Proust a demand\u00e9 \u00e0 son confr\u00e8re s&rsquo;il avait lu le premier volume de son \u0153uvre magistrale, un texte qu&rsquo;il a d\u00fb publier \u00e0 compte d&rsquo;auteur apr\u00e8s de multiples rejets de la part des \u00e9diteurs fran\u00e7ais. L&rsquo;\u00e9crivain irlandais a r\u00e9pondu par la n\u00e9gative, avant de recevoir une r\u00e9ponse identique au sujet de son propre roman. Au lieu de d\u00e9battre de leurs visions esth\u00e9tiques, ils ont pr\u00e9f\u00e9r\u00e9 comparer leurs probl\u00e8mes de sant\u00e9 respectifs. Proust a justifi\u00e9 son retard par la maladie, et Joyce a r\u00e9pliqu\u00e9 qu&rsquo;il souffrait de maux presque identiques. Aux premi\u00e8res lueurs de l&rsquo;aube, les deux hommes ont quitt\u00e9 la r\u00e9ception sans jamais discuter de leurs textes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">M\u00eame si Joyce n&rsquo;appr\u00e9ciait gu\u00e8re l&rsquo;\u0153uvre majeure de Proust, il admirait ses premiers r\u00e9cits et lui a rendu un hommage subtil dans son ultime roman, Finnegans Wake. Par un jeu de mots complexe sur son nom, l&rsquo;auteur irlandais a accord\u00e9 \u00e0 son confr\u00e8re fran\u00e7ais une v\u00e9ritable place dans l&rsquo;\u00e9ternit\u00e9 litt\u00e9raire. Malgr\u00e9 cette rencontre d\u00e9sastreuse et leurs personnalit\u00e9s oppos\u00e9es, ces deux cr\u00e9ateurs partageaient une approche artistique fondamentale. Tous deux ont choisi d&rsquo;\u00e9lever les d\u00e9tails triviaux du quotidien \u00e0 un statut mythique. L&rsquo;\u00e9crivain dublinois a transform\u00e9 une journ\u00e9e ordinaire en une odyss\u00e9e \u00e9pique, tandis que le ma\u00eetre fran\u00e7ais a prouv\u00e9 qu&rsquo;une simple tasse de th\u00e9 pouvait renfermer l&rsquo;int\u00e9gralit\u00e9 d&rsquo;une existence humaine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Joyce et Marcel Proust demeurent deux g\u00e9ants de la litt\u00e9rature du vingti\u00e8me si\u00e8cle qui ont r\u00e9volutionn\u00e9 la repr\u00e9sentation de la conscience humaine. Bien qu&rsquo;ils aient v\u00e9cu \u00e0 Paris \u00e0 la m\u00eame \u00e9poque, leur unique rencontre s&rsquo;est d\u00e9roul\u00e9e lors d&rsquo;un d\u00eener mondain organis\u00e9 par les m\u00e9c\u00e8nes Sydney et Violet Schiff le 18 mai 1922, en [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":26921,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[106,111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-non-classifiee","category-articles-and-reportages","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Quand Joyce S&#039;est Tu... 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