Hillaire, N. (2019). La réparation dans l’art. Paris: Nouvelles Éditions Scala.

Abstract

What to say about this book? Which is not a book, but a monument (in the sense of a memory theater), or rather, an archipelago. He is dizzying. What Norbert Hillaire borrows from the archipelagic approach (even if the expression was not used by the author) is the posture of the artist who, foreigner or exiled to himself, turns away from the essence, to look at the world as a difference – a gap constituting a new meaning. Consequently, the structure is modeled on the discontinuity of time, or better, on its fragility, freeing itself from all demiurgic pretensions, bending over “the most minuscule expressions of the days following the days” (pp. 342-343)...