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"Christian Bobin was a kind of moralist, like a great century, lost in ours"

2022-11-28T16:33:07.114Z


FIGAROVOX/TRIBUNE - Vincent Lamkin pays tribute to the poet, who died at the age of 71 on Thursday. Behind the writer hides a grand century moralist whose work constantly echoes the mistakes of our time, he believes.


Vincent Lamkin is a founding partner of the Comfluence agency, and co-president of Opinion Valley.

Although he inhabited reality, the splendor of things, the light of day, the smile of the streets, Christian Bobin will have lived as a hermit.

This is the strangeness of our time, which deserts the world, abandons it to wanderers, but worries about its disappearance.

The Platonic cavern was perhaps less a metaphor than a premonition: a connected humanity withdraws… It dreams of itself in the metaverse, it looks at itself in the superficial depths of social networks, it lives in the artificial light of screens.

In these forests of dead wood, words ring loud and hollow and Men are shadows.

Let's hope that the children we are trying to lose have learned to sow stones to find their way back – they who know that “

The end of the world and the bottom of the garden contain the same quantity of wonders

 ”.

Let's hope so.

A lot of people give up over time.

They disappear during their lifetime

.

“You have to learn to tell so as not to get lost…

Bobin's words are lanterns in broad daylight.

Let us reassure those who save energy: these lights do not consume energy.

You just have to hug them from time to time… To those who met him, he too could have said, like Diogenes: “

I'm looking for a Man

”.

Vast program, in a society that likes nothing more than to dissect the generations (X, Y, Z…) to detect successive generalities without filiation.

“Life in society is when everyone is there and there is no one.

Life in society is when everyone obeys what no one wants.

This is perhaps a key to meditating differently on some contemporary phenomena

.

We no longer inhabit the landscapes, the houses, the streets, the crossroads of the sky, the moments, the silences...

Vincent Lamkin

Life goes too fast and death reminds us that we must know how to travel in the stillness.

We no longer inhabit the landscapes, the houses, the streets, the crossroads of the sky, the moments, the silences... — rather than tugging on their leashes when they sniff out life.

This chaos of frenetic movements in cities where nothing ever stops – to go where?

We will never know any other perfection than that of lack

.

This is another way to prepare for the great sobriety that is coming.

As long as to do in the immaterial...

Christian Bobin was a kind of moralist, like a great century, lost in ours.

His panache of letters is sprinkled with maxims: learning to live is not a luxury since it is given to everyone.

Reading helps.

Write too, even if… “

You should never do literature, you have to write and it's not the same

.

And if we like to put words to things, let's beware of it sometimes.

"

It's the names that are scary.

Things without names are nothing, not even things.

»

The more we advance on the chaotic and endless path of progress, the less we bother ourselves with humanism, doubtless believing that innovations are an answer to everything, and preferring to counter the ambient mess with good feelings which have very little.

Can our wonder still play out elsewhere, on the side of the greatest fragility?

There is no other expectation than to live

 ”.

Dying is like falling in love: you disappear, and you don't give anyone any news.

 In the morning light, in the crowd, in the books, you have to imagine Bobin alive.

Source: lefigaro

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