Pensées à l’essai, followed by Instants de vie
February 4, 2016
Robert Pouderou’s new book, published by “Les Mandarines”
In the first part, our friend Robert Pouderou offers a mixture of reflections, confidences, philosophy and striking sentences that make us stop and think, punctuating the years at random from 1980 to 2000.
Thoughts that are sometimes serious, sometimes lighter; we can hear them read in Robert’s lilting accent. “Instants de vie” (Moments of life) are like vignettes, windows onto moments caught by the author – anecdotes, encounters….
The two texts that make up this volume are rather unusual in Robert Pouderou’s work. They were written as the pen and time ran on, like a breath between other works. One might almost take them for playful asides, fleeting ideas, aphorisms tossed out at random. Yet together they form a precious whole.
Because everything Robert Pouderou is in his theatre is found in this collection – but in a subtly fragmented, magnified way. They are like fragments of humanity.
(Extract from the preface by Gérald AUBERT)