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00:00Welcome to MEDIAN-TV and LIVRE, in this cultural chronicle and the first novel by the Franco-Moroccan

00:15Younes Boussina, Les Présences Imperfaites. In this first novel, published by RIVAGE,

00:22Younes Boussina briefly reports the relentless confession of a journalist to the eternal existence,

00:28tainted with loneliness, having lost his life trying to achieve it.

00:32An ambitious first novel, where the vertigo of lucidity points.

00:36It is the story of a man who has neither failed nor succeeded in his life, but who has lost it.

00:41Aged 58 in 2019, Marc Pépin makes the assessment.

00:44And from his adolescence to his position as head of the international service of the newspaper Le Figaro,

00:49the narrator who expresses himself to the first person depicts an existence, yet rich, but without real splinters.

00:56I suggest you listen to Younes Boussina.

01:27And so through him, I tried to make a portrait of the time, since we go through the 80s, the 90s, 2000 and 2010,

01:36since this confession took place in 2018, and through this profession of the Figaro,

01:40but he is also a novelist at his time, since he will write four novels.

01:44The challenge was both to tell an interiority, which is that of this character,

01:49and the reason for this observation of failure that he poses from the beginning of the novel.

01:54With this first novel, Younes Boussina, journalist and collaborator at Marianne,

01:59plunges us back and forth in the 70s, 80s, 90s, 2000 and 2010.

02:04Through the life of his anti-hero, the author describes a geopolitical situation

02:09that turns out to be complicated, while the end of the Cold War leaves the hope of a peaceful world.

02:15He also tells us the daily life of an editorial office during decades of turbulence.

02:19In the vast years of the press, a crisis ensues, which she could not get out of.

02:24Throughout the book, Marc Pépin, the character, details the disorders caused by a change of direction

02:30when the group Dassault buys the Figaro in 2004, the consequences of the decline in advertising revenues

02:36or the effects of its arrival on the Internet.

02:39Let's listen again to Younes Boussina.

02:41Anger is also an effect that can lead to an impasse and deadly blindness.

02:47To shape this anger, which takes root in this boredom of youth,

02:52where he says to himself, finally, I live in the Parisian suburbs,

02:55in a rather dull and gray universe, and on the other side of the periphery,

02:58there are people who have fun, there are people who have a playful life.

03:01To shape this anger born of the boredom of youth,

03:05confession appears to me through an influence,

03:09which is that of the fall of Albert Camus,

03:11which is the story in the first person of a lawyer named Clamence,

03:15and who also says, I succeeded in my life in the social sense,

03:20I pleaded for great causes, but in the end, I know that I failed as a man.

03:24And so there is a form of ethical defeat.

03:27And it is this observation that plunges the character into a form of abyss

03:32and that leads him to try, with the last weapon he has left, which is his lucidity,

03:36to retrace, let's say, his entire journey, both internal,

03:41but also the one that led him to be what he is today.

03:45For the character of the novel, existence without pain is not a happy existence.

03:50Existence, for many, lasts too long,

03:53so attached, by lack of choice, one cannot help but think of the narrator.

03:57The Imperfect Presences, the first novel of Younes Boussina,

04:00is rather an anti-novel that tells, in the form of confession,

04:04the hours and misfortunes of a man without quality.

04:07But this man, Marc Pépin, is also of great lucidity about himself and his time.

04:12And in this first successful novel, Younes Boussina, native of Avignon,

04:16narrates with elegance how a life, even when it seems full, can be empty.

04:21Let's listen to Younes Boussina.

04:23I wanted this character to be unique, because it is a character that I wanted to be literary,

04:27but I think it also says something about our time,

04:30which I also tried to capture through references,

04:33like the beginnings of the Internet, like the Eurodance movement of the 90s,

04:37certain things that give the tonality, the texture of this quest for intensity,

04:43which is that of this character and, through him, of his time.

04:47And finally, also with the impasses on which this quest arises for him,

04:56since there is a sentence that can conclude this question,

05:00which is, to love life, you have to love something other than yourself.

05:03And maybe, finally, the big question of this character is how to love something other than yourself

05:07when you have decided to live first for yourself.

05:11And music, to finish, is Tunisian singer Soufiane Zeydi.

05:15A master of music and musicology at the Tunisian Institute of Music,

05:20Soufiane Zeydi is an artist with a powerful voice,

05:23but also a high-level instrumentalist who plays the oud and percussion.

05:28First prize at the Bulgarian Festival in Tunisia in 2006,

05:32and at the Tunisian Music Festival in 2007,

05:35Soufiane Zeydi develops a patrimonial musical repertoire

05:38that combines sacred music and Malouf.

05:41I suggest you listen to this excerpt.

05:58SOUFIANE ZEYDI

06:29SOUFIANE ZEYDI

06:35Thank you, dear viewers, for your loyalty.

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06:58SOUFIANE ZEYDI

07:28SOUFIANE ZEYDI

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