LES MOTS À GARDER
Une pensée de Paul Auster
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documentaire "Paul Auster, le jeu du hasard" ( de Sabine Lidl, 2018 )
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En anglais : " he paragraph is the building block.
In poetry it's the line, for me, in prose it's the paragraph.
Each paragraph is a self-contained work that spills over into the next.
I work on a paragraph and work on it and work on it until it reasonably seems ok.
And then, because I think there's nothing more I can do, and also because, if I left it I won't be able to read it, because the writing is so small. I turn and type up the paragraph on the typewriter."
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D’autres mots de Paul Auster
Le vrai but de l'art n'est pas de créer de beaux objets : c'est une méthode de réflexion, un moyen d'appréhender l'univers et d'y trouver sa place.
Moon Palace
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En anglais : "The true purpose of art was not to create beautiful objects, he discovered. It was a method of understanding, a way of penetrating the world and finding one's place in it, and whatever aesthetic qualities an individual canvas might have were almost an incidental by-product of the effort to engage oneself in this struggle, to enter into the thick of things."
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Nos vies nous emportent selon des modes que nous ne pouvons maîtriser, et presque rien ne nous reste.
La chambre dérobée
Contexte et précisions
En anglais : "Our lives carry us along in ways we cannot control, and almost nothing stays with us. It dies when we do, and death is something that happens to us every day."
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