{"id":403,"date":"2016-09-05T19:45:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-05T19:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cwebbn.wixsite.com\/legsedition\/single-post\/2015\/09\/01\/%C3%80-quoi-servent-les-pr%C3%A9faces-"},"modified":"2022-08-05T06:46:19","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T06:46:19","slug":"a-quoi-servent-les-prefaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legsedition.net\/public\/2016\/09\/05\/a-quoi-servent-les-prefaces\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00c0 quoi servent les pr\u00e9faces ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>Quel \u00e9crivain n\u2019a jamais re\u00e7u la demande de r\u00e9diger une pr\u00e9face pour un autre plus jeune ou qui fait ses premiers pas dans la litt\u00e9rature ? Entre la litt\u00e9rature et les pr\u00e9faces, il y a une longue histoire d\u2019amour, et comme toute histoire d\u2019amour, elle est faite aussi de haine et parfois m\u00eame de r\u00e9pulsion. Ce qui peut nous pousser \u00e0 nous demander si les pr\u00e9faces, souvent r\u00e9dig\u00e9es dans le but de l\u00e9gitimer une \u0153uvre ou un auteur, sont, elles-m\u00eames, l\u00e9gitimes ? L\u00e0 je pense \u00e0 Bonel Auguste affubl\u00e9 \u00e0 tort du titre de po\u00e8te-philosophe par Franketienne ou m\u00eame \u00e0 Kermonde Lovely Fifi qu\u2019Emmelie Proph\u00e8te cite comme une voix qui nous manquait. On se souvient des premi\u00e8res lignes de la pr\u00e9face d\u2019En route de l\u2019\u00e9crivain fran\u00e7ais Huysman qui disait dans une ironie sans \u00e9gale \u00ab\u2026je m\u2019abstiens de faire devancer mes livres d\u2019inutiles phrases \u00bb.Ou de la postface du recueil de po\u00e8mes Le voyage Invent\u00e9 (Claude Pierre) r\u00e9dig\u00e9e par Lyonel Trouillot, pol\u00e9miste de son \u00e9tat, disant \u00ab heureusement pour les pr\u00e9faciers qu\u2019il existe ce genre appel\u00e9 la postface pour leur voler la palme du ridicule \u00bb.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Si les pr\u00e9faces sont inutiles ou rel\u00e8vent du ridicule, pourquoi s\u2019acharne-t-on \u00e0 en r\u00e9diger ou \u00e0 demander qu\u2019on nous en r\u00e9dige ? Le jeune auteur qui mise sur la pr\u00e9face, ne court il pas le risque de la voir voler la vedette \u00e0 son livre ? Car les pr\u00e9faces-vedettes, on en a connu : la pr\u00e9face de Cromwell ou celle de Pierre et Jean, sont consid\u00e9r\u00e9es comme beaucoup plus utiles (pour ridiculiser un peu Huysman) que les textes. Mais, il s\u2019agit ici de pr\u00e9faces r\u00e9dig\u00e9es par les auteurs des livres eux-m\u00eames, ce que la critique litt\u00e9raire appelle la pr\u00e9face auctorielle. Les pr\u00e9faces peuvent donc faire autant de bien que de mal. Qui ne se souvient pas de cet \u00e9crivain, parcourant les rues de Port-au-Prince, cherchant les rares exemplaires de son livre apr\u00e8s le d\u00e9part de Baby-Doc se rappelant que ce livre a \u00e9t\u00e9 pr\u00e9fac\u00e9 par un tonton-macoute. Ce livre dont on ne citera pas le titre, dommage, \u00e0 cause de la pr\u00e9face, n\u2019a pas v\u00e9cu longtemps.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Si les pr\u00e9faciers donnent une part de leur c\u00e9l\u00e9brit\u00e9 ou de leur autorit\u00e9 \u00e0 l\u2019auteur pr\u00e9fac\u00e9, l\u2019\u00e9quation inverse est parfois envisag\u00e9e par eux. En pr\u00e9fa\u00e7ant le livre d\u2019un grand auteur, on se donne aussi un peu de l\u00e9gitimit\u00e9. C\u2019est ce qu\u2019on verra si l\u2019on pense \u00e0 un Lyonel Trouillot pr\u00e9fa\u00e7ant Ren\u00e9 Philoct\u00e8te ou \u00e0 Emmelie Proph\u00e8te pr\u00e9fa\u00e7ant le dernier recueil de po\u00e8mes de Lyonel Trouillot. Mais en v\u00e9rit\u00e9, vous dis-je, pour reprendre un peu Mallarm\u00e9, \u00ab un bon livre se passe de pr\u00e9sentation \u00bb.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\">W\u00e9bert Charles<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Quel \u00e9crivain n\u2019a jamais re\u00e7u la demande de r\u00e9diger une pr\u00e9face pour un autre plus jeune ou qui fait ses premiers pas dans la litt\u00e9rature ? Entre la litt\u00e9rature et les pr\u00e9faces, il y a une longue histoire d\u2019amour,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chroniques","category-lachroniquedewebertcharles"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>\u00c0 quoi servent les pr\u00e9faces ? | LEGS &Eacute;DITION<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/legsedition.net\/public\/2016\/09\/05\/a-quoi-servent-les-prefaces\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"fr_FR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u00c0 quoi servent les pr\u00e9faces ? | LEGS &Eacute;DITION\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; Quel \u00e9crivain n\u2019a jamais re\u00e7u la demande de r\u00e9diger une pr\u00e9face pour un autre plus jeune ou qui fait ses premiers pas dans la litt\u00e9rature ? 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