L'Encre du voyageur
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L'Encre du voyageur a reu le prix Fmina Essai 2007. Un voyage n'est que de l'encre. Toute exploration est le souvenir d'un ancien manuscrit. Christophe Colomb dcouvre une Amrique qu'il avait arpente dans les rcits de Marco Polo. Les missionnaires qui ouvrent le Brsil, au XVIe sicle, connaissent par coeur les textes des crivains antiques, Pline le Jeune ou Hrodote. C'est pourquoi ils aperoivent dans la fort quatoriale toutes ces amazones. En lisant, en crivant, j'ai parcouru quelques recoins de la terre, Inde, Islande ou Tahiti. J'ai ajout ma peinture aux peintures qui les barbouillaient dj. Cela m'a permis d'en raviver la fracheur, d'en dbusquer les surprises, les miracles. Gilles Lapouge. Avec une rudition et un humour formidables, Gilles Lapouge enrichit nos rayonnages d'une bien sduisante philosophie de la gographie. Go. Les crivains sont les meilleurs guides. Avec Lapouge, on est sr de s'garer avec bonheur... Incitant au rve, sollicitant les imaginations, favorisant la rflexion, L'Encre du voyageur convie une dlicieuse flnerie plantaire rappelant que, dans un monde qui court sans savoir o, on ne perd jamais son temps perdre du temps. Jean Contrucci, Le Nouvel Observateur. Joyeux, potique, insolite, malicieux, drle, amical Gilles Lapouge va l, o, mode ou pas mode, a lui chante. Et il s'enchante de l o il est all... Ses points de vue ne figurent dans aucun guide. Normal qu'on ne les retrouve pas aprs son passage, car il faut avoir son oeil, sa culture et son style... Sa prose, c'est du nanan dguster. Madurai existe un bassin dans lequel, autrefois, on jetait les livres pour en juger les qualits. S'ils tombaient au fond, ils ne valaient pas tripette. S'ils flottaient, ils mritaient d'tre lus. J'ai jet le livre de Gilles Lapouge dans le bassin du Luxembourg. Tiens, comment avez-vous devin qu'il n'a pas coul ? Bernard Pivot, de l'acadmie Goncourt, Les livres de Gilles Lapouge devraient tre rembourss par la Scurit sociale... Mohammed Assaoud, Le Figaor littraire. Un enchantement [...]. Ce livre blouit par sa beaut, sa polyphonie, sa sagesse... Roger Bichelberger, Le Rpublicain lorrain.
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