{"id":29769,"date":"2026-05-16T15:22:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T13:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/?p=29769"},"modified":"2026-05-19T10:54:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T08:54:15","slug":"le-coin-du-roman-balzac-rodin-deux-genies-face-a-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/2026\/05\/16\/le-coin-du-roman-balzac-rodin-deux-genies-face-a-face\/","title":{"rendered":"[Le coin du roman] Balzac, Rodin, deux g\u00e9nies face \u00e0 face"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"paragraph\">\n<p>Tout est beau pour l\u2019artiste, car en tout \u00eatre et en toute chose, son regard p\u00e9n\u00e9trant d\u00e9couvre le caract\u00e8re, c\u2019est-\u00e0-dire la v\u00e9rit\u00e9 int\u00e9rieure qui transpara\u00eet sous la forme, disait Rodin dans son testament \u00e0 la jeunesse. Gardez-vous d\u2019imiter vos a\u00een\u00e9s, Les mauvais artistes chaussent toujours les lunettes d\u2019autrui&#8230; Rodin, quoique grand admirateur de Phidias et de Michel-Ange, n\u2019a pas chauss\u00e9 les leurs. Il \u00e9tait lui-m\u00eame, quitte \u00e0 \u00eatre moqu\u00e9 par ceux qui voyaient dans sa sculpture de Balzac un bonhomme de neige, envelopp\u00e9 dans un sac pour recevoir son cr\u00e9ancier, et m\u00eame une larve informe. Heureusement qu\u2019Ars\u00e8ne Alexandre \u00e9tait l\u00e0 pour le f\u00e9liciter d\u2019avoir cr\u00e9\u00e9 une \u0153uvre qui tranchait sur la banalit\u00e9, et que la romanci\u00e8re Cl\u00e9lia Renucci est l\u00e0, aujourd\u2019hui, pour se glisser dans l\u2019esprit du sculpteur.<\/p>\n<p><b>Galerie de personnages<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Malgr\u00e9 l\u2019insistance de Dumas et de Zola, il faudra attendre quatre d\u00e9cennies, apr\u00e8s la mort de Balzac, pour que Rodin, dont Renucci fait ressortir les doutes et les soudaines certitudes, les folles rages et les p\u00e9riodes d\u2019accalmie, soit choisi pour sculpter la statue de l\u2019un des plus grands auteurs du XIX<sup>e<\/sup>\u00a0si\u00e8cle. Tous les moyens sont bons \u00e0 l\u2019auteure pour nous faire revivre cette aventure \u00e0 la limite de l\u2019incroyable\u00a0: lettres, documents d\u2019\u00e9poque, pol\u00e9miques, scandales, galerie de personnages, plus ou moins c\u00e9l\u00e8bres, auxquels on se doit d\u2019attribuer des r\u00f4les, qu\u2019ils interpr\u00e8tent \u00e0 la perfection, sous la conduite de l\u2019adroite plume de la romanci\u00e8re, afin de nous plonger dans ce si\u00e8cle qui vit na\u00eetre les plus distingu\u00e9s artistes et les plus illustres \u00e9crivains. Puissant, original, mouvement\u00e9 et hardi.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph\">\n<p><i>Albin Michel, 20,90 euros<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tout est beau pour l&rsquo;artiste, car en tout &ecirc;tre et en toute chose, son regard p&eacute;n&eacute;trant d&eacute;couvre le caract&egrave;re, c&rsquo;est-&agrave;-dire la v&eacute;rit&eacute; int&eacute;rieure qui transpara&icirc;t sous la &#8230;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[572,1293,1958,1244,988,2001],"news-destination":[],"news-source":[475],"is_homepage":[],"ta_other":[],"class_list":["post-29769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-france","tag-lecture","tag-litterature","tag-livres","tag-week-end","tag-weekend","news-source-website"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29769","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=29769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29771,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29769\/revisions\/29771"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29769"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=29769"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=29769"},{"taxonomy":"is_homepage","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/is_homepage?post=29769"},{"taxonomy":"ta_other","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ta_other?post=29769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}