{"id":143,"date":"2025-09-12T11:22:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T09:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.80.18.46\/?p=143"},"modified":"2025-10-01T10:47:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T08:47:12","slug":"memoires-sauvees-de-leau-de-nina-leger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zigzart.fr\/?p=143","title":{"rendered":"M\u00e9moires sauv\u00e9es de l\u2019eau,\u00a0\u00a0 de Nina L\u00e9ger"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Nina L\u00e9ger est n\u00e9e en 1988 \u00e0 Antibes. Elle est dipl\u00f4m\u00e9e de l’\u00c9cole normale sup\u00e9rieure de Lyon et a obtenu en 2017 un doctorat en th\u00e9orie de l’art . Elle enseigne aux Beaux-Arts de Marseille.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00ab M\u00e9moires sauv\u00e9es de l\u2019eau \u00bb, publi\u00e9 chez Gallimard, est son quatri\u00e8me roman, apr\u00e8s \u00ab Histoire naturelle \u00bb,  \u00ab Mise en pi\u00e8ces \u00bb ( prix Ana\u00efs-Nin) et \u00ab Antipolis \u00bb qui d\u00e9crivait la cr\u00e9ation de Sophia-Antipolis.  Ce quatri\u00e8me roman a re\u00e7u le prix du roman historique d\u00e9cern\u00e9 \u00e0 Blois au Festival Les rendez-vous de l\u2019histoire<\/strong> en 2024. !<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  En  1847, les \u00c9tats-Unis n\u2019ont pas encore arrach\u00e9 la Californie au Mexique . Un commer\u00e7ant suisse, John Sutter, endett\u00e9, a quitt\u00e9 cinq ans plus t\u00f4t sa ville natale, Berne, pour le nouveau monde. Il d\u00e9barque \u00e0 New-York, traverse les \u00c9tats-Unis . S\u2019installe en Californie, prend la nationalit\u00e9 mexicaine, fait fortune dans le commerce et l\u2019\u00e9levage. En 1848 , le 24 janvier la Californie devient am\u00e9ricaine et Sutter devient am\u00e9ricain. Pour agrandir son empire il a besoin de bois. Il envoie son charpentier, James Marshall  construire une scierie entre les rivi\u00e8res Sacramento et Feather. Pour la faire fonctionner il utilise l\u2019\u00e9nergie des rivi\u00e8res. Et c\u2019est alors que Marshall d\u00e9couvre de l\u2019or dans le lit de ces rivi\u00e8res. C\u2019est le d\u00e9but de la ru\u00e9e vers l\u2019or. Des villes naissent et disparaissent. Comme Oroville qui porte bien son nom, une des premi\u00e8res \u00e0 na\u00eetre et qui r\u00e9sistera au temps. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2020 Th\u00e9a, g\u00e9ologue, travaille sur le barrage construit sur la Feather river. qui rejoint Sacramento River un peu plus au sud. Les m\u00e9ga-feux la poussent \u00e0 partir \u00e0 San-Francisco. Entour\u00e9e d\u2019amies de diverses origines elle fait des recherches sur la raison de ces gigantesques incendies. On d\u00e9couvre peu \u00e0 peu la construction de la Californie dans la violence.  Nina L\u00e9ger nous d\u00e9crit la folie de l\u2019or, le d\u00e9tournement des rivi\u00e8res, un peuple  autochtone qui sera compl\u00e8tement extermin\u00e9. Le r\u00e9cit est ponctu\u00e9 d\u2018articles de journaux et de discours de l\u2019\u00e9poque. Ainsi le discours de Peter Burnett , gouverneur de Californie, qui d\u00e9clare le 7 janvier 1851 :<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00abL\u2019homme blanc pour qui le temps est de l\u2019argent et qui travaille dur, chaque jour, pour s\u2019assurer une vie confortable, ne peut veiller chaque nuit pour prot\u00e9ger ses biens. Apr\u00e8s avoir \u00e9t\u00e9 vol\u00e9 quelques fois , il est contraint d\u2019engager une guerre d\u2019extermination (\u2026) jusqu\u2019\u00e0 ce que la race indienne soit \u00e9teinte.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En quelques ann\u00e9es de recherches intenses, l\u2019or s\u2019\u00e9puise. Qu\u2019importe, on plante des orangers apr\u00e8s avoir irrigu\u00e9 ces champs avec l\u2019eau d\u00e9tourn\u00e9e des rivi\u00e8res. Et la terre s\u2019ass\u00e8che, rendant les incendies d\u00e9vastateurs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On rencontre beaucoup de personnages ayant exist\u00e9 comme Ishi, le dernier indien de Californie, l\u2019\u00e9crivaine et anthropologue Elizabeth Fisher, Alfred Kroeber, un des premiers sp\u00e9cialistes des populations autochtones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

C\u2019est un livre passionnant. Il nous fait vivre la violence de la naissance d\u2019un Etat,  nous apprend le pass\u00e9 rude, et mythifi\u00e9 de la conqu\u00eate de l\u2019ouest si glorifi\u00e9e par Hollywood. Le ton reste heureusement tendre mais sans concession sur la brutalit\u00e9 de cette conqu\u00eate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                                                                       Claude GUEST<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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