[Mon Chien Stupide
Christel Malden
Le projet d'adaptation du roman Mon chien Stupide de John Fante, publi titre posthume en 1985, remonte une vingtaine d'annes avant le film d'Yvan Attal. Claude Berri devait le raliser et tourner le film en anglais avec Peter Falk dans le premier rle. Mais ne maitrisant pas assez la langue, le cinaste propose le projet Yvan Attal : Quand Claude Berri m'a propos de faire le film, il y a presque 20 ans, Peter Falk tait pressenti dans le rle de l'crivain rat. C'est d'ailleurs pour a que je porte un impermable dans le film, un clin d'œil Peter Falk et Columbo[2].
L'avis de Premire est plus divis. Un des critiques de la rdaction a beaucoup aim le film, contrairement un autre qui le rsume ainsi : Yvan Attal est donc Henri, qu'une voix off (procd devenu figure impose pour cinastes paresseux) nous dcrit en lose complte[8].
Un norme chien tte d'ours, obsd et trs mal lev, dbarque un soir dans la vie d'Henry J. Molise, auteur quinquagnaire rat et dsabus qui n'a qu'une envie : tout plaquer et s'envoler loin de sa famille qui le rend fou. Malgr l'affection d'Henry pour la bte, sa femme Harriet et ses quatre enfants restent mfiants l'gard de ce canid indomptable. Dans la coquette banlieue californienne de Point Dume, au bord du Pacifique, ce monstre attachant s'apprte semer un innommable chaos. Un joyau d'humour loufoque et de provocation ravageuse.
Au fil de ces trois novelas puissantes et sauvages, Jim Harrison compose une tragdie moderne o la violence, la rdemption et l'amour vibrent chaque page. De Cochran, l'ancien militaire laiss pour mort, Tristan Ludlow, parti pour le front de 1914, la vengeance, immuable, est au cœur de leur destin.
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Prononcez le nom de Fante et vous verrez s'clairer le visage de vos interlocuteurs: Ah! Mon Chien stupide, Demande la Poussire, quelle drlerie, quelle violence et quelle gnrosit! A ces livres mythiques et une demi-douzaine d'autres (tous traduits chez Christian Bourgois), s'en ajoutent aujourd'hui deux, qui font redcouvrir la verve et la vie de l'crivain disparu en 1983: les nouvelles de Grosse Faim (The Big Hunger: Stories 1932-1959) et la biographie Plein de Vie (Full of Life: A Biography of John Fante). Des titres qui lui vont comme un gant, parce que l'un associe l'imagination dvorante d'un petit garon l'crivain qui a le plus compt pour Fante: Knut Hamsun, l'auteur de La Faim. Et que l'autre met le doigt sur son incroyable nergie et son amour de la vie.
C'est Stephen Cooper qu'on doit la publication de ces dix-sept nouvelles et du prologue initial de Demande la Poussire, supprim parce qu'il dvoilait la fin du roman. Il ne s'agit nullement de fonds de tiroir, mais de textes publis en revue ou indits et qui ont t retrouvs dans les archives de Joyce Fante, la veuve de l'crivain: une vraie mine. Grce ces archives, Cooper a pu retracer minutieusement la vie pas du tout exemplaire de son modle, si proche de celle de ses personnages. N en 1909 Denver, dans une famille originaire des Abruzzes (pre maon, beau parleur, joueur et buveur; mre trs pieuse), John Fante est habit par la figure paternelle, qu'il aime et dteste tout la fois. Jamais dans son œuvre littraire, si fortement autobiographique, il n'voquera une poque de sa vie postrieure la disparition en 1950 de Nick Fante, alias Nicholas Molise, qu'il a si magnifiquement raconte dans Les Compagnons de la grappe, comme une prfiguration de sa propre mort due au diabte.
L'enfance: c'est un des thmes forts des nouvelles de Grosse Faim, commencer par la plus ancienne, Les voix encore petites, qui fait entendre les frres et sœur de l'crivain coutant leurs parents qui se disputent la nuit. La mre de Jakie (lire ci-dessus), sans doute la plus dramatique et la plus mouvante, semble inspire par la mort accidentelle du cousin prfr de Fante. Quel plouc, ce Dibber Lannon! et Grosse faim montrent son tonnante capacit restituer le langage et les sentiments enfantins.
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