{"id":1023,"date":"2024-11-30T19:24:58","date_gmt":"2024-11-30T18:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/volkanartz.w23.fr\/?p=1023"},"modified":"2024-11-30T19:24:58","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T18:24:58","slug":"impressions-la-femme-et-le-paysage-de-stefan-zweig-nouvelle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/volkanartz.chauss.in\/en\/impressions-la-femme-et-le-paysage-de-stefan-zweig-nouvelle\/","title":{"rendered":"Impressions : \"The woman and the countryside\", by Stefan Zweig (a short story)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My first contact with Literature happened through Stefan Zweig.<br>This actually made a lot of sense, as his writing is within reach for neophytes : fine tuned but accessible, with psychological acuity but not too mental and nurturing for the imagination.At this age, it seems that emotional (and therefore artistic) impressions have the ability to leave their traces for very long, as if carved in a soft material. Moreover, the \"short story\" format is also suitable for the specific kind of teenager's impatience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"424\" height=\"612\" src=\"https:\/\/volkanartz.chauss.in\/app\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-68.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1024\" style=\"width:335px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/volkanartz.chauss.in\/app\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-68.png 424w, https:\/\/volkanartz.chauss.in\/app\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-68-173x250.png 173w, https:\/\/volkanartz.chauss.in\/app\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-68-8x12.png 8w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 424px) 100vw, 424px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At this age, it seems that emotional (and therefore artistic) impressions have the ability to leave their traces for very long, as if carved in a soft material.<br>That's how I still have vivid memories about his \"Letter from an unknown woman\", \"The royal game\" of course, and full scale novels like \"Confusion\" and \"Beware of Pity\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1600\" src=\"https:\/\/volkanartz.chauss.in\/app\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-69.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1025\" style=\"width:359px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/volkanartz.chauss.in\/app\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-69.png 1200w, https:\/\/volkanartz.chauss.in\/app\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-69-600x800.png 600w, https:\/\/volkanartz.chauss.in\/app\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-69-188x250.png 188w, https:\/\/volkanartz.chauss.in\/app\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-69-768x1024.png 768w, https:\/\/volkanartz.chauss.in\/app\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-69-1152x1536.png 1152w, https:\/\/volkanartz.chauss.in\/app\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-69-9x12.png 9w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pour exemple, voici &#8220;La lettre d&#8217;une inconnue&#8221;, accessible par les liens suivants&nbsp; :<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In French : \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ebooksgratuits.com\/details.php?book=2322\">https:\/\/www.ebooksgratuits.com\/details.php?book=2322<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In English : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prosperosisle.org\/spip.php?article958\">https:\/\/www.prosperosisle.org\/spip.php?article958<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Original version in German : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prosperosisle.org\/spip.php?article958#Below2\">https:\/\/www.prosperosisle.org\/spip.php?article958#Below2<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"505\" src=\"https:\/\/volkanartz.chauss.in\/app\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-70.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1026\" srcset=\"https:\/\/volkanartz.chauss.in\/app\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-70.png 750w, https:\/\/volkanartz.chauss.in\/app\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-70-250x168.png 250w, https:\/\/volkanartz.chauss.in\/app\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-70-18x12.png 18w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So when i got my hands on a book by Zweig, in a flea market, containing short stories I hadn't read yet, I didn't think twice.<br>You know, one has to seize opportunities, when given the chance, right ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">L\u2019un de ces r\u00e9cits a particuli\u00e8rement attis\u00e9 mes vibrations int\u00e9rieures : &#8220;la femme et le paysage&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In spite of its title, which wouldn't sell well, I suppose, in today's world, it was neither about <em>male gaze<\/em> , nor about evanescent contemplation\u2026 Without revealing too much of the story (which text I could not find copyright free online in English ; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.projekt-gutenberg.org\/zweig\/amok\/chap002.html\">here is the original, in German<\/a> and here is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ebooksgratuits.com\/details.php?book=2555\">French version<\/a>), il s\u2019agit plut\u00f4t d\u2019une ambiance, d\u2019une atmosph\u00e8re \u00e9lectrique (en attendant l&#8217;orage) et, comme tout r\u00e9cit romantique qui se respecte depuis Faust, d\u2019un acte manqu\u00e9.<br>All in all, a first rate story, although marked by the spirit of a time (very XIXthesque, even if published in the 1930s), but that also has its own value.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1056\" height=\"699\" src=\"https:\/\/volkanartz.chauss.in\/app\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-71.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1027\" srcset=\"https:\/\/volkanartz.chauss.in\/app\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-71.png 1056w, https:\/\/volkanartz.chauss.in\/app\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-71-800x530.png 800w, https:\/\/volkanartz.chauss.in\/app\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-71-250x165.png 250w, https:\/\/volkanartz.chauss.in\/app\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-71-768x508.png 768w, https:\/\/volkanartz.chauss.in\/app\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-71-18x12.png 18w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1056px) 100vw, 1056px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/volkanartz.chauss.in\/app\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-72.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1028\" srcset=\"https:\/\/volkanartz.chauss.in\/app\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-72.png 1280w, https:\/\/volkanartz.chauss.in\/app\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-72-800x450.png 800w, https:\/\/volkanartz.chauss.in\/app\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-72-250x141.png 250w, https:\/\/volkanartz.chauss.in\/app\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-72-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/volkanartz.chauss.in\/app\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-72-18x10.png 18w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/volkanartz.chauss.in\/app\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-73.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1029\" srcset=\"https:\/\/volkanartz.chauss.in\/app\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-73.png 1000w, https:\/\/volkanartz.chauss.in\/app\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-73-800x534.png 800w, https:\/\/volkanartz.chauss.in\/app\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-73-250x167.png 250w, https:\/\/volkanartz.chauss.in\/app\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-73-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/volkanartz.chauss.in\/app\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-73-18x12.png 18w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SPOILER : As I was looking for the text, I fell upon a pretty good animation movie : <a href=\"\/en\/the woman and the coutryside\/\">ce court m\u00e9trage d&#8217;animation<\/a>, by  Adrienne Zeidler.<br>Il est de qualit\u00e9, en particulier vis \u00e0 vis des atmosph\u00e8res et en termes de stylisation. La romance est quant \u00e0 elle abord\u00e9e de mani\u00e8re un peu trop directe et &#8220;rentre-dedans&#8221;, ce que je regrette car cela est beaucoup plus fin dans le livre. La version \u00e9crite n&#8217;est pas sans une certaine forme d&#8217;\u00e9rotisme, mais pas tellement plus que cela &#8211; et je trouve \u00e7a excellent, car cela n&#8217;en stimule que mieux l&#8217;imagination\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"woman and countryside\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/208475533?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To be honest, this romanticism has been somewhat misleading in my youth.<br>Indeed, after a few readings of the kind (and movies as well), I thought that things were indeed running this way : unannounced encounters, out of ordinary atmospheres, intense and elusive love\u2026<br>Well, the worst is probably not so much to think that it might be possible (actually, I truly lived it\u2026 and had to cope with quite a few disappointments), but rather the reaction, afterwards, towards this all - when we consider later on, that all of it was full of shit.<br>Indeed, after 15 or 20 years, I finally understood how coldly I could look at the world and human relations - probably as a way of self preservation - in other words : the extreme opposite of romanticism ! And that was even worse than sadness ; it felt like an icy gloom (hopefully, I still had the Theater arts to warm me up\u2026)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today, I strongly believe that romanticism is, more than anything, a matter of outlook and attitude : there's nothing impartial nor neutral, quite the oppositive, as it's seems to be mainly about perceptions and overtures to surrounding events.<br>As a matter of fact, this very principle applies particularly well to at least 3 short stories of the book : \"The woman and the countryside\" (excuse and impulsion of this post), but also \"Unexpected acquaintance with a craft\", or \"The invisible collection\". Without getting into details about these stories, we're witnessing unpredictable encounters and observations of life going its bizarre ways. The narrator is systematically placed in a unexpected situation and appreciates it, by opening himself to it, letting himself get touched.<br>In other words, he fully places himself in a similar position that Hartmut Rosa describes in his essay <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abebooks.fr\/servlet\/SearchResults?cm_sp=plpafe-_-all-_-hard&amp;an=rosahartmut&amp;bi=h&amp;sortby=17&amp;tn=resonancesociologyrelationshipworld\">Resonance<\/a> (I'll do a post about this very important book). Far from fleeing such situations, the narrator longs for them and receives a very vivid reward out of that<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"1252\" src=\"https:\/\/volkanartz.chauss.in\/app\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-75.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1031\" style=\"width:371px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/volkanartz.chauss.in\/app\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-75.png 800w, https:\/\/volkanartz.chauss.in\/app\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-75-511x800.png 511w, https:\/\/volkanartz.chauss.in\/app\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-75-160x250.png 160w, https:\/\/volkanartz.chauss.in\/app\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-75-768x1202.png 768w, https:\/\/volkanartz.chauss.in\/app\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-75-8x12.png 8w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A \"romantic\" life is possible, if we are keen on appreciating it.<br>C\u2019est un peu comme la philosophie de l\u2019abondance, qui pr\u00f4ne que le monde n\u2019est empreint de raret\u00e9 et de manque(s) que si on le consid\u00e8re comme tel. Pour reformuler : l\u2019abondance existerait sur tous les plans (entre autres :\u00a0 affectif, mat\u00e9riel et m\u00eame financier) \u00e0 condition d\u2019apprendre \u00e0 \u00eatre disponible, \u00e0 accepter de prendre et, naturellement, \u00e0 donner en retour. Il s&#8217;agirait donc d&#8217;apprendre \u00e0 ouvrir les yeux, pour voir la beaut\u00e9 qui nous entoure, et \u00e0 ouvrir son c\u0153ur \/ \u00e2me ou autre (selon ce qui nous parle), pour devenir beaux nous-m\u00eames.<br>Naturellement, j&#8217;ai \u00e9norm\u00e9ment \u00e0 apprendre sur ce sujet (aussi et peut-\u00eatre m\u00eame plus que beaucoup, compte tenu de ce parcours en dents de scies et de ma &#8220;d\u00e9formation&#8221; scientifique cultivant le &#8220;rationalisme&#8221;), mais certaines exp\u00e9riences m&#8217;indiquent que je suis sur une voix prometteuse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Et pourtant que d&#8217;inattendu ! (la vie, en somme\u2026)<br>I remember some situations, which really feed this conception.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Par exemple, je revois clairement cinq rencontres dans le train, \u00e0 la faveur de mes d\u00e9placements r\u00e9guliers. 5\u2026 en 12 ans ! C&#8217;est dire si j&#8217;en ai rat\u00e9 ! Quant \u00e0 celles-ci, je les appr\u00e9cie aujourd&#8217;hui encore.<br>Elles m\u00e9riteraient un billet chacune (et bien plus encore), mais il suffit dans l&#8217;imm\u00e9diat d&#8217;indiquer qu&#8217;elles m&#8217;ont toujours pris au d\u00e9pourvu, au travers de personnes tr\u00e8s diff\u00e9rentes de moi-m\u00eame, lesquelles voulaient simplement parler \u00e0 quelqu&#8217;un. Ces fois-l\u00e0, j&#8217;ai eu la pr\u00e9sence d&#8217;esprit de fermer l&#8217;\u00e9cran de mon ordinateur et de me rendre disponible. J&#8217;ai \u00e9cout\u00e9 ces personnes, me confiant leur histoire et leur drame &#8211; et j&#8217;ai appris en quelques heures plus qu&#8217;en plusieurs ann\u00e9es.<br>Peut-\u00eatre ces rencontres ne peuvent-elles survenir que de mani\u00e8re inopin\u00e9e, avec des inconnu(e)s ? Toujours est-il que dans l&#8217;\u00e9change, le c\u0153ur ouvert \u00e0 l&#8217;inconnu, on se remplit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Joe Dassin - Les Champs-Elys\u00e9es (Clip officiel)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bb-DKKRN4o8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A few notes :<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>You can find a few stories by Zweig at the link : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prosperosisle.org\/spip.php?rubrique112\">https:\/\/www.prosperosisle.org\/spip.php?rubrique112<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Je vous renvoie \u00e9galement \u00e0 un excellent blog, que j&#8217;ai d\u00e9couvert en pr\u00e9parant ce billet : <a href=\"https:\/\/vishytheknight.wordpress.com\/2018\/11\/20\/book-review-the-collected-stories-of-stefan-zweig\/\">https:\/\/vishytheknight.wordpress.com\/2018\/11\/20\/book-review-the-collected-stories-of-stefan-zweig\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Impressions de lecture, en red\u00e9couvrant Stefan Zweig, \u00e0 l&#8217;occasion d&#8217;un vieux livre de poche, d\u00e9nich\u00e9 au d\u00e9tour d&#8217;une brocante&#8230; avec de belles d\u00e9couvertes.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-impressions","category-reflexions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/volkanartz.chauss.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/volkanartz.chauss.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/volkanartz.chauss.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volkanartz.chauss.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volkanartz.chauss.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1023"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/volkanartz.chauss.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1033,"href":"https:\/\/volkanartz.chauss.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions\/1033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/volkanartz.chauss.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volkanartz.chauss.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volkanartz.chauss.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}