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Loading... Le roman des Jardin (2005)by Alexandre Jardin
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"Dois-je avouer que, soudain, j ́en ai eu assez de me cacher publiquement en e crivant des romans de bon garc ʹon ? Que mes petites e pope es sur l ́extase conjugale m ́ont paru, la quarantaine venue, bien pa lichonnes au regard des folies de ma famille ? Bon sang, me suis-je dit : jusqu ́a quand auras-tu peur d ́e tre un Jardin ? Il faut admettre que le sang des Jardin est un breuvage a haut risque. Une gorge e, et bas les masques ! Cap sur les sentiments incorrects ; sur des fie vres bizarres, loufoques, grisantes ; sur ces hurluberlus qui font ma tribu et qui embellirent leur vie de magnifiques audaces... Le re sultat est la : dans ce roman vrai, je perce mes abce s de silence. Je vagabonde enfin au sein de ce clan qui, a lui seul, incarne la fantaisie, l ́irre gularite en tout et un moment d ́incroyable liberte . Pour la premie re fois, je redeviens un Jardin. Suis-je digne de ces grands fouleurs de principes ? Je leur dois, en tout cas, la meilleure part de ce que je suis." A.J. [Source : 4e de couv.] No library descriptions found. |
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Jardin's family and all the people that gravitated around them were artists, poets, politicians. Jardin's father, grand-father, uncles were known womanizers with multiple mistresses. Both their wives had multiples stay in lovers. This novel, this lie that speaks the truth is Alexandre's way to make peace with this very marginal upbringing, to make sense of his own life.
The tone is up beat, light but it's a lie because beneath the laughter and the outrageous you can hear the anguish about being different, the pain of losing his father very young, the hurt of not having something stable ever, the despair of a young man to live up to the family legend. Even at 40, when he wrote this fictional memoirs Alexandre still struggled with the weight of being a Jardin. ( )