J'ai rencontré des vivants. Ouverture au spirituel dans le temps de la maladie

The purpose of this book is to shed light on the rather unexplored "English facet" of Fernando Pessoa, considered one of the major Portuguese poets of the twentieth century. The originality of this study also lies in its extensive use of unpublished documents. Out of the bulk of Pessoa's English writings, The Mad Fiddler has been selected ; it offers not only poems of better quality than most of his writings in English but it also has the advantage of being a complete and coherent suite of " mystical " poems. A systematic comparative study of the themes in The Mad Fiddler and in the poems by the four Portuguese heteronyms reveals a claer continuity and shows that Pessoa's bilingual Poetry is based on his main ontological quest, which he tried to solve by means of his dramatic scattering into " masks ". After this comparative analysis, the individuality of The Mad Fiddler is defined. Following an overwiew of the unpublished English writings found in the Pessoan legacy, The Mad Fiddler is analysed by means of Pessoa's own unpublished comments. An investigation of Pessoa's private French library and of his un published Literary Appreciations proves how fully he understood the impact of Symbolism on the evolution of Modern Art. The Mad Fiddler could indeed be viewed as an English echo of Pessoa's interest in modern trends in Literature and as a kind of " English microcosm " of Pessoa's aesthetic theory.

Résumé : J'ai rencontré le vieil homme le soir de la tempête. Il sortait de la bergerie dans son bleu de travail décoloré. Quand il me vit, grelottant de froid et de peur, il m'invita à me réchauffer dans le grand salon du manoir, au coeur du domaine d'Hermeline. A la fois châtelain et jardinier, cet homme gardait un trésor. Oublié des hommes, le domaine d'Hermeline dort en bordure du village. Dans ce royaume où vit un vieillard solitaire, un enfant apprend à aimer la terre. Il y découvre la valeur du silence et de l'amitié. Esquisse d'un monde effacé qui, peut-être, quelque part, existe encore.

Soyons prêts à échanger un sourire, le sourire est le début de l'amour et une fois que nous commençons à nous aimer les uns les autres vient le désir de faire davantage. Mère Teresa Auteurs : Charles Delhez, Jean Hanotte, Christine Hayois-Limpens, Loïc Joncheray, Tanguy Martin, Myriam Terlinden, Marie-Thérèse Thomas, Bernadette Wiame