{"id":14479,"date":"2025-12-21T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/?p=14479"},"modified":"2026-01-05T15:50:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T13:50:36","slug":"le-coin-du-roman-il-y-a-cent-ans-mourait-un-peintre-ecrivain-suisse-naturalise-francais","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/2025\/12\/21\/le-coin-du-roman-il-y-a-cent-ans-mourait-un-peintre-ecrivain-suisse-naturalise-francais\/","title":{"rendered":"[Le coin du roman] Il y a cent ans mourait un peintre-\u00e9crivain suisse naturalis\u00e9 fran\u00e7ais"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"paragraph\">\n<p>Dans son <i>Journal<\/i>, celui dont les biographes salu\u00e8rent le refus des conventions, et dont ceux qui le connaissaient disaient qu\u2019il avait des gestes sobres, des paroles mesur\u00e9es qui firent de lui un observateur aigu et exerc\u00e9, \u00e9crivait\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0<i>La vie est une fum\u00e9e<\/i><i>\u00a0<\/i><i>; on se d\u00e9bat, on s\u2019illusionne, on s\u2019accroche \u00e0 des fant\u00f4mes qui c\u00e8dent sous la main, &#8211; et la mort est l\u00e0&#8230;<\/i>\u00a0\u00bb Quatre ans plus tard, il d\u00e9c\u00e9dait des suites d\u2019une op\u00e9ration. Il avait soixante ans. Peu savent pourtant que l\u2019artiste aux mille sept cents peintures, parmi lesquelles <i>La Biblioth\u00e8que<\/i>, <i>Le<\/i><i>\u00a0<\/i><i>Concierge<\/i>, <i>\u00c9tude de fesses<\/i> ou <i>Soir sur le L\u00e9man<\/i>, fut aussi romancier et dramaturge. Ce sont ses fictions, et ses pi\u00e8ces de th\u00e9\u00e2tre, annot\u00e9es par d\u2019\u00e9minents sp\u00e9cialistes, qui vous sont donn\u00e9es \u00e0 lire.<\/p>\n<p><b>Le pinceau pour la plume<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Est-ce parce que le romancier Octave Mirbeau le tenait pour un des artistes les plus personnels de sa g\u00e9n\u00e9ration, et voyait en lui un homme qui r\u00e9fl\u00e9chit, qu\u2019il changea le pinceau pour la plume\u00a0? Nous ne saurions le dire, m\u00eame s\u2019il nous arrive de le penser. Quatorze \u0153uvres figurent dans cet ouvrage, aussi nous est-il difficile de les pr\u00e9senter toutes. Nous nous limiterons \u00e0 sa plus c\u00e9l\u00e8bre <i>La Vie meurtri\u00e8re<\/i> qui met en sc\u00e8ne un peintre suicid\u00e9 qui laisse un manuscrit au commissaire charg\u00e9 de l\u2019enqu\u00eate. Inutile de vous dire que les pages ne sont pas d\u00e9cor\u00e9es avec des p\u00e9tales de roses. Qu\u2019importe\u00a0! puisqu\u2019elles d\u00e9gagent un v\u00e9ritable talent d\u2019\u00e9crivain. Le parfait cadeau de No\u00ebl pour ceux qui pr\u00e9f\u00e8rent le spectacle des faiblesses humaines, au \u00ab\u00a0feel-good\u00a0\u00bb qui nous invite \u00e0 partager sa vision positive de la vie.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph\">\n<p><i>Zo\u00e9, 39<\/i><i>\u00a0<\/i><i>euros<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dans son Journal, celui dont les biographes salu&egrave;rent le refus des conventions, et dont ceux qui le connaissaient disaient qu&rsquo;il avait des gestes sobres, des paroles mesur&eacute;es qui firent de lui un observateur aigu et &#8230;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[10,1244,16,1294,988,2001],"news-destination":[],"news-source":[475],"is_homepage":[],"ta_other":[],"class_list":["post-14479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-bouches-du-rhone","tag-livres","tag-marseille","tag-roman","tag-week-end","tag-weekend","news-source-website"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14481,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14479\/revisions\/14481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14479"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=14479"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=14479"},{"taxonomy":"is_homepage","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/is_homepage?post=14479"},{"taxonomy":"ta_other","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ta_other?post=14479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}