Month: July 2017

… Sounge i felibre esteba… I'm thinking of the Félibres… It's characteristic of the good artisans of the Divers, to turn it over like this end for end. Would it ever be achieved? It is ruin, death. It is always reborn: suddenly behind, when in front you hold out your arms to it.

However, there, Boissière writes: The Buddha, Cemetery of Annam, etc.

In 96, a year before his death, admirable verses of reverse exoticism:

Today, tired of waiting for the kiss of the Sirens — My weary Flesh returns to the native village — where the echo of the world still fascinates me...

Over there, wandering, smoke twists: They are old desires , old sins that burn….

Victor Segalen, Essay on Exoticism, An Aesthetics of Diversity , Editions Fata Morgana.

I do not know, if like me, to hear the word diversity (which replaced the word other ) causes you a beginning of nausea. Victor Segalen is an author who acts as a remedy for this high-heart.

Fine example that Jules Boissière who, Provençal, felibre, wrote his most beautiful felibrian verses in Hanoi.

Here is the real diversity, which plunges into itself to welcome the other. But to dive into itself, it is still necessary that there is a self! The speeches of politicians who have only the word diversity in the mouth push a big void in front of them and wave it with all the more audacity as they try to convince and convince themselves, but they have lost its knowledge and violent it as soon as they pronounce its name.

It is only possible to speak of diversity by listening to yourself, your intimate being. This is what it means to be sensitive to the various. Those who are full of various without fulfilling this effort are only naive "creolizing" or disguised globalists.

Victor Segalen, Essay on exoticism, an aesthetic of diversity. Editions Fata Morgana.