MEDI1TV Afrique : #Chronique_culture du 10/03/2025 - 10/03/2025
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00:00Welcome to MEDIAN-TV and LIVRE, in this cultural chronicle and the first novel by the Franco-Moroccan
00:15Younes Boussina, Les Présences Imperfaites. In this first novel, published by RIVAGE,
00:22Younes Boussina briefly reports the relentless confession of a journalist to the eternal existence,
00:28tainted with loneliness, having lost his life trying to achieve it.
00:32An ambitious first novel, where the vertigo of lucidity points.
00:36It is the story of a man who has neither failed nor succeeded in his life, but who has lost it.
00:41Aged 58 in 2019, Marc Pépin makes the assessment.
00:44And from his adolescence to his position as head of the international service of the newspaper Le Figaro,
00:49the narrator who expresses himself to the first person depicts an existence, yet rich, but without real splinters.
00:56I suggest you listen to Younes Boussina.
01:27And so through him, I tried to make a portrait of the time, since we go through the 80s, the 90s, 2000 and 2010,
01:36since this confession took place in 2018, and through this profession of the Figaro,
01:40but he is also a novelist at his time, since he will write four novels.
01:44The challenge was both to tell an interiority, which is that of this character,
01:49and the reason for this observation of failure that he poses from the beginning of the novel.
01:54With this first novel, Younes Boussina, journalist and collaborator at Marianne,
01:59plunges us back and forth in the 70s, 80s, 90s, 2000 and 2010.
02:04Through the life of his anti-hero, the author describes a geopolitical situation
02:09that turns out to be complicated, while the end of the Cold War leaves the hope of a peaceful world.
02:15He also tells us the daily life of an editorial office during decades of turbulence.
02:19In the vast years of the press, a crisis ensues, which she could not get out of.
02:24Throughout the book, Marc Pépin, the character, details the disorders caused by a change of direction
02:30when the group Dassault buys the Figaro in 2004, the consequences of the decline in advertising revenues
02:36or the effects of its arrival on the Internet.
02:39Let's listen again to Younes Boussina.
02:41Anger is also an effect that can lead to an impasse and deadly blindness.
02:47To shape this anger, which takes root in this boredom of youth,
02:52where he says to himself, finally, I live in the Parisian suburbs,
02:55in a rather dull and gray universe, and on the other side of the periphery,
02:58there are people who have fun, there are people who have a playful life.
03:01To shape this anger born of the boredom of youth,
03:05confession appears to me through an influence,
03:09which is that of the fall of Albert Camus,
03:11which is the story in the first person of a lawyer named Clamence,
03:15and who also says, I succeeded in my life in the social sense,
03:20I pleaded for great causes, but in the end, I know that I failed as a man.
03:24And so there is a form of ethical defeat.
03:27And it is this observation that plunges the character into a form of abyss
03:32and that leads him to try, with the last weapon he has left, which is his lucidity,
03:36to retrace, let's say, his entire journey, both internal,
03:41but also the one that led him to be what he is today.
03:45For the character of the novel, existence without pain is not a happy existence.
03:50Existence, for many, lasts too long,
03:53so attached, by lack of choice, one cannot help but think of the narrator.
03:57The Imperfect Presences, the first novel of Younes Boussina,
04:00is rather an anti-novel that tells, in the form of confession,
04:04the hours and misfortunes of a man without quality.
04:07But this man, Marc Pépin, is also of great lucidity about himself and his time.
04:12And in this first successful novel, Younes Boussina, native of Avignon,
04:16narrates with elegance how a life, even when it seems full, can be empty.
04:21Let's listen to Younes Boussina.
04:23I wanted this character to be unique, because it is a character that I wanted to be literary,
04:27but I think it also says something about our time,
04:30which I also tried to capture through references,
04:33like the beginnings of the Internet, like the Eurodance movement of the 90s,
04:37certain things that give the tonality, the texture of this quest for intensity,
04:43which is that of this character and, through him, of his time.
04:47And finally, also with the impasses on which this quest arises for him,
04:56since there is a sentence that can conclude this question,
05:00which is, to love life, you have to love something other than yourself.
05:03And maybe, finally, the big question of this character is how to love something other than yourself
05:07when you have decided to live first for yourself.
05:11And music, to finish, is Tunisian singer Soufiane Zeydi.
05:15A master of music and musicology at the Tunisian Institute of Music,
05:20Soufiane Zeydi is an artist with a powerful voice,
05:23but also a high-level instrumentalist who plays the oud and percussion.
05:28First prize at the Bulgarian Festival in Tunisia in 2006,
05:32and at the Tunisian Music Festival in 2007,
05:35Soufiane Zeydi develops a patrimonial musical repertoire
05:38that combines sacred music and Malouf.
05:41I suggest you listen to this excerpt.
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