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Hélie, garçon d'hôtel

Hélie, garçon d'hôtel


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"Je touchais l'homme à l'épaule. Il se tournait lentement vers moi. C'était bien lui, Hélie, garçon d'hôtel. Hélie, le garçon de l'hôtel de la Prudence, à Marseille, sa philosophie avertie et sa résignation désabusée de pauvre hère en marge de la société, Hélie et son doux je m'en foutisme de déclassé, depuis sa première enfance victime de l'injustice des préjugés et des lois. Hélie, quinquagénaire épave de tout établissement où l'on mange, où l'on aime et où l'on dort, Hélie, tour à tour plongeur, serveur, garçon d'hôtel, garçon de café, extra, gardien de villas, homme de peine et même pisteur, des meublés de Marseille aux garnis des halles et des rues chaudes de Toulon aux pensions de famille de Nice, tombé dans la misère et l'hébétude où je le retrouvais. Hélie ! C'était bien lui. Il levait sur moi deux yeux de stupeur, deux yeux clignotants et noyés d'ivrogne, et, de sa voix traînarde, aux inflexions mouillées, où les fins de phrases tombaient avec un bruit flasque, une voix éculée comme une vieille semelle: - Eh bien oui, monsieur Jacques, c'est bien moi. Cette voix spéciale ne me permettait plus un doute. Défiguré par la lèpre ou masqué d'une cagoule, j'aurais reconnu entre toutes cette voix grasse et trouée comme une vieille conduite d'évier. Elle m'avait communiqué, cette inoubliable voix, tant de stupéfiantes réflexions et tant d'imprévues histoires ! La mémoire d'Hélie, son imagination aussi, était le rendez-vous des choses à la fois les plus effroyables, les plus divertissantes et les plus baroques. Il y avait de tout dans sa vie: des souvenirs d'offices et des souvenirs de bouges, des relents de cuisines et de lupanars, des parfums de boudoirs et des moisissures de garnis. Dans sa vie, multiple et si remplie qu'elle en avait crevé son enveloppe extérieure devenue pareille à une loque, Hélie avait fréquenté des voleurs, des banquiers, des chasseurs de cercles, des comtes du Saint-Empire, des femmes galantes, des filles soumises, des garçons de bains, des mineurs des deux sexes, des cosmopolites et même des messieurs du clergé, sans oublier les marchands de billets, les camelots et les danseurs de bal public. Hélie avait même été, je crois, vaguement, machiniste dans un théâtre des boulevards extérieurs, ou tout au moins garçon d'accessoires; sa mémoire était aussi peuplée que l'arrière-boutique d'un fripier." Également disponible au format numérique.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781500962418
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Height: 203 mm
  • No of Pages: 176
  • Series Title: French
  • Weight: 231 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1500962414
  • Publisher Date: 15 Jul 2015
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: French
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 10 mm
  • Width: 127 mm

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