C'è da dire che sul "Corriere" sono usciti dei begli articoli su Céline, ma questa stroncatura dell'Alméras rimane notevole! ;-)
ELZEVIRO. Biografie discutibili
Il grande Celine? Solo un vigliacco
Il grande Celine? Solo un vigliacco
Michele Mari, 4 gennaio 1998
Chi volesse sapere come non si deve scrivere la biografia di un artista legga questo Celine di Philippe Almeras (Corbaccio, pagine 558, lire 49.000), studioso che un incauto risvolto di copertina definisce "il piu' autorevole specialista di Celine": se davvero lo fosse, povero Celine e povera critica celiniana, perche' raramente happen to come across an example so 'obvious' maldisposizione "of a biographer in respect of its object. For Almeras Celine and 'patently obnoxious, and his fame irritates him, and his "aura" and' to be a hoax report: fine, had the courage and honesty 'to write a book against Celine. The trouble 'on the contrary, he poses as "Celine" zealous, even reaching educationally aping a style well known (eg on page 322: "... the Revolution, but then, here sorry! The real one! Supercomunista! "). Avarice, envy, mercenary, 'dirt, ill-treatment to family members: we know that there is no' big man in the eyes of his valet, but, in fact, biographies should not write the waiters. There are two main ideal types of biography: the scholar - analytical and essay - sentimental. The former tends to recovery and reconstruction of any 'fact' and 'largely for granted the greatness of the character and the meaning of his work, however, the second model tends to assume the philological investigation of the facts, preferring the appearance of interpretation and evaluation of research. It 'obvious that neither of the two models and' completely self-sufficient and that any contamination and 'lawful: I think less lawful bastardize both models by transferring to one of the other criteria. This has just made Almeras, which on the one hand, using the alibi arbitrarily essay writing, failed a myriad of facts and anecdote (especially dates) unless overwhelm the reader when he was interested, and which otherwise has discouraged the 'interpretation' of Celine writer pending a fiscal response effectual. In Rigodon (and 'an example, I could make one hundred) Celine tells of his trip to Germany with the colors of the epic apocalyptic? Eighteen days on foot and twenty-seven changes of train? Mind! Cries Almeras, and corrects: "The journey, which seems interminable, lasting three days." So what? Then I ask myself: you can ', today, after a century of literary theory, after the idealism after formalism, after structuralism, deconstruction after, after all, So write a biography ', paleo - positivist without even the scrupulous honesty of the positivists? When Almeras says some letters of the young Celine inaccuracies in Africa by noting that he "already 'horror of reality', he prefers to strike up stories' and 'still in lawful, even if a scholar more' sensitive pad was used to capture the epiphany of writer rather than 'the indolence of the "settler", but when the same sieve are passed on Journey to the End of the night or from one castle to another and' how to blame Dante 'cause instead of being sang Beatrice married Gemma Donati (and Almeras had the gall to bring an aura of Jean d'Ormesson sentence: "The life of the novelist is not very interest, and his ideas, the less you have, the better "). The result is inevitably a Celine coward, an opportunist, calculator, wrongly whining, and of course Celine tout - Nazi court, without the complex issue of his anti-Semitism to lead to only doubt, a single motion of curiosity 'explanation (which does not escape the duplicity' weight and size: hyperbole and the Voyage '"lies", but in hyperbole and Bagatelles' "truth"). It is not enough: we Almeras lepidezze was also afflicted with unbearable, as when, concerning the refusal of Gallimard to pay a new advance in Celine says (playing on the title of Mort to 'credit), "Credit and' dead ', or when, having denied in front of Celine a partner jew to be filoariano, gloss in brackets: "rhymes with pimp." There 'nothing to add. The life of Celine and 'what is too deep' cause a Almeras can shrink it: even the lives, 'cause as he wrote Celine already' in 1933, "I've had at least three or four as far as I know" .*
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