{"id":933,"date":"2026-01-17T14:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T13:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zigzart.fr\/?p=933"},"modified":"2026-01-17T14:39:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T13:39:14","slug":"lhomme-qui-lisait-des-livres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zigzart.fr\/?p=933","title":{"rendered":"L’homme qui lisait des livres"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Rachid Benzine<\/strong>, n\u00e9 le 5 janvier 1971 \u00e0 K\u00e9nitra au Maroc est arriv\u00e9 en France \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e2ge de 7 ans. C\u2019est un islamologue, politologue et enseignant franco-marocain. Dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 d’\u00e9tudes approfondies en sciences politiques de l’universit\u00e9 Paris-Descartes, il a aussi une ma\u00eetrise en \u00e9conomie. Passionn\u00e9 de religion et de dialogue entre les religions, il a enseign\u00e9 en particulier \u00e0 l\u2019IEP d\u2019Aix en Provence, et \u00e0 l\u2019universit\u00e9 catholique de Louvain. Il compte de nombreuses publications comme \u00ab\u00a0Une lecture du Coran avec Paul Ric\u0153ur\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0 et des romans dont le fameux \u00ab\u00a0Lettre \u00e0 Nour\u00a0\u00bb.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

 Aujourd\u2019hui je vais vous parler de son dernier roman \u00ab L\u2019homme qui lisait des livres \u00bb, \u00e9dit\u00e9 chez Julliard.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

           \u00ab Journ\u00e9e ordinaire. Hier, deux frappes ont tu\u00e9 quatre gamins dont le seul crime avait \u00e9t\u00e9 de jouer au foot sur la plage<\/em> \u00bb : ainsi commence le livre. Un photographe fran\u00e7ais, Julien, est  envoy\u00e9 \u00e0 Gaza pour effectuer un reportage. Il pr\u00e9f\u00e8re capturer des sc\u00e8nes de la vie quotidienne plut\u00f4t que prendre des photos d\u2019enfants en pleurs, de ruines ou de bless\u00e9s qui sont pourtant les plus demand\u00e9es.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il rencontre Nabil, assis sur le pas de sa librairie, un livre en main, des centaines de livres pos\u00e9s autour de lui \u00e0 m\u00eame le trottoir sur une b\u00e2che. Nabil refuse de se faire photographier parce que, selon lui, \u00ab  une photographie capture un homme dans un instant, mais que reste-t-il dans l\u2019image, de la vie de cet homme<\/em> ?\u00bb<\/p>\n\n\n\n

          Alors qu\u2019une manifestation du Hamas d\u00e9file dans la rue et que tous les rideaux sont baiss\u00e9s, Julien retrouve le libraire qui lui offre un caf\u00e9. Nabil raconte sa vie. Ses parents habitaient Bilad el-Cheikh,  un village proche de la raffinerie de p\u00e9trole britannique de Ha\u00effa o\u00f9 son p\u00e8re travaillait. Il ne voulait pas gratter la terre s\u00e8che comme tous les paysans de la r\u00e9gion. Dans la nuit du 31 d\u00e9cembre au 1er<\/sup> janvier 48, une branche de la Haganah a vid\u00e9 le village de ses habitants. Alors commence \u00ab une litanie de repr\u00e9sailles sur repr\u00e9sailles, de haines empil\u00e9es, de tristesse recouverte de tristesse.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n\n\n\n

          Nabil est n\u00e9 en 1948 d\u2019une m\u00e8re musulmane et d\u2019un p\u00e8re chr\u00e9tien. Ils ont v\u00e9cu avec sa s\u0153ur, son fr\u00e8re et ses grands-parents \u00e0 Aqabat Jabr non loin de J\u00e9richo, puis dans le camp de Jabaliya pr\u00e8s de Gaza, \u00e0 pr\u00e8s de 90 km de Ha\u00effa . C\u2019est l\u00e0 que Nabil s\u2019adonne \u00e0 la lecture. Shakespeare, Victor Hugo,  Primo Levi, Franz Fanon, Hom\u00e8re, des po\u00e8tes palestiniens Mourid al-Barghouti, Mahmoud Darwich, la \u00ab Chronique du figuier barbare \u00bb de Sahar Khalifa\u2026 Il lit tout le temps et tout ce qu\u2019il peut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

          Tout au long du r\u00e9cit, on ressent la sensibilit\u00e9 de Nabil et forc\u00e9ment celle de l\u2019auteur. Une ouverture d\u2019esprit remarquable dans ce pays d\u00e9vast\u00e9 par la violence, l\u2019intol\u00e9rance et la haine. Ce livre n\u2019est pas un roman historique mais une fable, un conte philosophique. Il d\u00e9montre que les livres aident l\u2019humain \u00e0 supporter la douleur et l\u2019oppression. Un roman d\u2019une grande sagesse. Une p\u00e9pite qui ne peut pas laisser indiff\u00e9rent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                                          Claude Guest<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PHOTO : Avec \u00ab L\u2019homme qui lisait des livres \u00bb,  Rachid Benzine signe un roman d\u2019une grande sagesse, une p\u00e9pite qui ne peut pas laisser indiff\u00e9rent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rachid Benzine, n\u00e9 le 5 janvier 1971 \u00e0 K\u00e9nitra au Maroc est arriv\u00e9 en France \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e2ge de 7 ans. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-le-coin-des-bouquins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zigzart.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zigzart.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zigzart.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zigzart.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zigzart.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zigzart.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":936,"href":"https:\/\/www.zigzart.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions\/936"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zigzart.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zigzart.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zigzart.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zigzart.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}