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"I never have time to disgorge even a twentieth of what I accumulate — and later, it will be too late." To respond to this urgency, Alexandre Vialatte (1901–1971) created a literary genre he brought to perfection: the chronique.
From the age of twenty-one until his death, he composed hundreds of them for La Revue rhénane, Le Crapouillot, L'Intransigeant, Le Moniteur, L'Epoque, La Nouvelle Revue française, La Revue hebdomadaire, Marie-Claire, Le Journal de l'Est, Le Petit Dauphinois and, in the last eighteen years of his life, for the major Auvergne daily La Montagne. The paper offered him a half-column or a full column each week and total freedom to write about whatever he wished — except politics.
So, every Sunday evening, Vialatte brought his copy to Gare de Lyon and handed it to the mail car of the 11:15 pm train. Over eighteen years, he missed his appointment only two or three times. And what did he write about week after week? Everything and nothing. Sometimes a novel, sometimes a play or a poetry collection; at times he recounts an encounter, evokes a film, scoffs at a “first truth,” digs into a cliché, comments on a proverb. The chronique is the work of a walker, a flâneur, a curious mind, a philosopher. “We went looking for men, like Diogenes, to ask them for maxims or windows onto the horizon.” It is an essentially poetic genre, able to catch any subject on the wing. Even the most ephemeral, by the grace of style, becomes charged with meaning. “A chronique should grow like grass in the cracks of a wall, in the stones of the timetable.” Pierre Vialatte, in his own way, returns lost time to us. He belongs to the family of Saint-Simon and Proust.
Number of pages: 1056
Dimensions: 13.30 x 20.00 x 3.00 cm
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