{"id":1035,"date":"2014-10-30T06:00:26","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T05:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laurent-bayart.fr\/?p=1035"},"modified":"2014-10-29T09:58:12","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T08:58:12","slug":"une-etoile-dans-la-nuit-le-journal-dhelene-berr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.laurent-bayart.fr\/?p=1035","title":{"rendered":"UNE ETOILE DANS LA NUIT \/ LE JOURNAL D\u2019HELENE BERR."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.laurent-bayart.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/berr.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1033 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.laurent-bayart.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/berr-193x300.jpg\" alt=\"berr\" width=\"193\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.laurent-bayart.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/berr-193x300.jpg 193w, http:\/\/www.laurent-bayart.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/berr.jpg 659w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Pr\u00e9fac\u00e9 par le r\u00e9cent prix Nobel\u00a0de litt\u00e9rature Patrick\u00a0Modiano, le journal d\u2019H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Berr se pr\u00e9sente comme un intense et vibrant t\u00e9moignage d\u2019une des p\u00e9riodes les plus sombres de notre histoire. Ce journal-r\u00e9cit s\u2019\u00e9chelonne de 1942 jusqu\u2019au d\u00e9but de l\u2019ann\u00e9e 1944. H\u00e9l\u00e8ne, juive issue d\u2019une famille ais\u00e9e (le p\u00e8re est industriel), raconte sa soif de vivre, ses sorties culturelles dans un Paris\u00a0occup\u00e9 o\u00f9 elle sent \u2013 d\u2019une mani\u00e8re \u00e9trangement pr\u00e9monitoire \u2013 la trag\u00e9die qui se pr\u00e9pare. Elle exulte d\u2019amour et de passion, ode \u00e0 la vie et \u00e0 la beaut\u00e9 des \u00e9l\u00e9ments, \u00e0 contretemps du poids d\u2019une actualit\u00e9 qui \u00e9crase les destin\u00e9es. Elle doit d\u00e9j\u00e0 jongler, sinon faire du gymkhana, entre les rafles plus ou moins annonc\u00e9es. Elle \u00e9clate litt\u00e9ralement d\u2019amour pour un jeune homme Jean Morawiecki\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0Je lui avais trouv\u00e9 l\u2019air slave, l\u2019air d\u2019un prince slave\u00a0\u00bb. Il s\u2019engagera dans la r\u00e9sistance pendant que, peu \u00e0 peu, disparaissent les silhouettes \u00ab\u00a0\u00e9toil\u00e9es\u00a0\u00bb dans la ville lumi\u00e8re \u00e9trangl\u00e9e par la peste nazie\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0 <em>Il y a du beau m\u00eal\u00e9 au tragique. Une esp\u00e8ce de resserrement de la beaut\u00e9 au c\u0153ur de la laideur\u00a0\u00bb<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Outre une ind\u00e9niable qualit\u00e9 d\u2019\u00e9criture, on est impressionn\u00e9 par cette femme romantique qui ose encore s\u2019\u00e9mouvoir et aimer au milieu d\u2019un chaos qui creuse son effroyable fosse. Ce journal, devenu \u00ab\u00a0texte mythique\u00a0\u00bb qui a \u00e9t\u00e9 offert au M\u00e9morial de la Shoah, est d\u2019une troublante modernit\u00e9. Il y d\u00e9crit cette inexorable mont\u00e9e de l\u2019horreur, les camps d\u2019internement, le \u00ab\u00a0Vel d\u2019hiv&rsquo; \u00bb, les trains \u00e0 bestiaux, l\u2019humiliation quotidienne de cette \u00e9toile cousue aux manteaux\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0Ce soir, tout a chang\u00e9 \u00e0 nouveau\u00a0: je trouve que c\u2019est une l\u00e2chet\u00e9 de ne pas le faire (la mettre), vis-\u00e0-vis de ceux qui le feront\u00a0\u00bb. Ce destin hors du commun nous ouvre la voie et nous exhorte \u00e0 ne jamais renoncer\u2026Les flammes d\u2019hier n\u2019ont pas encore fait taire leurs braises. D\u2019autres incendies tels des f\u0153tus dorment dans le ventre des dictateurs fous.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Laurent BAYART<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0* <em>H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Berr, journal, <\/em>pr\u00e9face de Patrick\u00a0Modiano, Points, \u00e9ditions Tallandier, 2008<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Pr\u00e9fac\u00e9 par le r\u00e9cent prix Nobel\u00a0de litt\u00e9rature Patrick\u00a0Modiano, le journal d\u2019H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Berr se pr\u00e9sente comme un intense et vibrant t\u00e9moignage d\u2019une des p\u00e9riodes les plus sombres de notre histoire. Ce journal-r\u00e9cit s\u2019\u00e9chelonne de 1942 jusqu\u2019au d\u00e9but de l\u2019ann\u00e9e 1944. H\u00e9l\u00e8ne, juive issue d\u2019une famille ais\u00e9e (le p\u00e8re est industriel), raconte sa soif &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laurent-bayart.fr\/?p=1035\" class=\"more-link\">Continuer la lecture de <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UNE ETOILE DANS LA NUIT \/ LE JOURNAL D\u2019HELENE BERR.<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-notes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4doc5-gH","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.laurent-bayart.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.laurent-bayart.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.laurent-bayart.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.laurent-bayart.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.laurent-bayart.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1035"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.laurent-bayart.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1039,"href":"http:\/\/www.laurent-bayart.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions\/1039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.laurent-bayart.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.laurent-bayart.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.laurent-bayart.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}