{"id":740,"date":"2014-01-23T15:23:32","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T14:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edmondmorrel.be\/?p=740"},"modified":"2020-07-17T15:37:04","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T13:37:04","slug":"monsieur-optimiste-alain-berenboom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edmondmorrel.be\/?p=740","title":{"rendered":"\u00ab\u00a0Monsieur Optimiste\u00a0\u00bb &#8211; Alain Berenboom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u00ab\u00a0Monsieur Optimiste\u00a0\u00bb de Alain Berenboom (Editions Gen\u00e8se)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Couronn\u00e9 du Prix Rossel (dont il a \u00e9t\u00e9 finaliste \u00e0 3 reprises), Alain Berenboom fait dans son dernier livre un r\u00e9cit familial dont le fil rouge est accroch\u00e9 au destin de son p\u00e8re, Cha\u00efm, immigr\u00e9 mod\u00e8le venu de Pologne en Belgique dans les ann\u00e9es trente. C\u2019est lui \u00ab\u00a0Monsieur Optimiste\u00a0\u00bb. Berenboom historien, m\u00e9morialiste et observateur devient par la force des choses le narrateur (\u00ab\u00a0le chroniqueur\u00a0\u00bb) mais aussi le protagoniste de cette chronique qui explore, \u00e0 travers le destin d\u2019une famille, un si\u00e8cle d\u2019Histoire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Comme il en a l\u2019habitude, &#8211; \u00ab\u00a0c\u2019est une seconde nature\u00a0\u00bb- dit-il, l\u2019\u00e9crivain essaie de masquer l\u2019\u00e9motion sous l\u2019ironie et l\u2019humour. Mais, lui-m\u00eame n\u2019en est pas dupe. L\u2019\u00e9motion est bel et bien l\u00e0, \u00e0 chacun des courts chapitres dont est construit ce r\u00e9cit humaniste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nous avons rencontr\u00e9 Alain Berenboom dans ses bureaux bruxellois en janvier 2014<br><strong><br>Edmond Morrel<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-spotify wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"232\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" title=\"Spotify Embed: &quot;Monsieur Optimiste&quot; de Alain Berenboom\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed-podcast\/episode\/79i8ay4qLuzvL6YVYN1Mpz\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/genese-edition.eu\/librairie\/32-monsieur-optimiste.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sur le site de la maison d\u2019\u00e9dition&nbsp;<strong>Gen\u00e8se<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Un excellent rem\u00e8de contre la morosit\u00e9\u2026<br>Des ann\u00e9es vingt aux ann\u00e9es soixante, le r\u00e9cit nostalgique et picaresque d\u2019un \u00e9migr\u00e9 polonais \u00e0 Bruxelles.<br>Quand le narrateur entreprend, dix ans apr\u00e8s la mort de son p\u00e8re, de ranger les archives familiales, il d\u00e9couvre petit \u00e0 petit que le \u201cbrave\u201d pharmacien de Bruxelles, a travers\u00e9, tel un Don Quichotte des temps modernes, bien des aventures, rencontr\u00e9 bien des obstacles, connu bien des dangers, dont il s\u2019est sorti avec la plus efficace des potions magiques, l\u2019optimisme, la vraie \u00e9toffe des h\u00e9ros&nbsp;!<br>Avec ce onzi\u00e8me livre, Alain Berenboom prouve que l\u2019on peut aborder avec humour les pages les plus sombres du XXe si\u00e8cle.<br><\/em><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00ab\u00a0Monsieur Optimiste\u00a0\u00bb de Alain Berenboom (Editions Gen\u00e8se) Couronn\u00e9 du Prix Rossel (dont il a \u00e9t\u00e9 finaliste \u00e0 3 reprises), Alain&nbsp;[&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":741,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-litterature-dici","post-item clearfix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmondmorrel.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmondmorrel.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmondmorrel.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmondmorrel.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmondmorrel.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/edmondmorrel.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":742,"href":"https:\/\/edmondmorrel.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions\/742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmondmorrel.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmondmorrel.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmondmorrel.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmondmorrel.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}