“My heart is ready, O God, my heart is ready
”: it is to psalm 107 that Christian Bobin's work makes us think after five long decades of writing.
From one book to another, season after season, the most secret writer of his date after the disappearance of his heroes - Ernst Jünger, Julien Gracq, Philippe Jaccottet - seems to have had the sole desire to prepare his heart, in its proximity to the mouth.
“
I seek by writing a voice, mine.
Because if I find my voice, then I will find the unique voice of those I love
,” he wrote in
Pierre
(2019), the book he dedicated to the painter Soulages.
“
I seek
”: everything Christian Bobin holds in this proposal that he was never tempted to return by proclaiming: “
I do not seek, I find.
Thanks to Pascal, mentioned in particular in
The Ruins of the Sky
(2009), the writer measures what is naïve in this statement by Picasso.
With Khawadja Abdallah al-Ansarî, an 11th century poet, born in what is now Afghanistan, he knows the order…
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