{"id":24213,"date":"2024-09-10T16:24:16","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T14:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.satiricon.be\/?p=24213"},"modified":"2024-09-10T16:24:16","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T14:24:16","slug":"ave-caesar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.satiricon.be\/?p=24213","title":{"rendered":"Ave Caesar !"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.satiricon.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Theodoros.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"228\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.satiricon.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Theodoros.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.satiricon.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Theodoros.jpg 228w, https:\/\/www.satiricon.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Theodoros-195x300.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Dans la veine de <em>L\u2019Homme qui voulut \u00eatre roi<\/em> (1888) de Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) et de <em>Moi, Antoine de Tounens, roi de Patagonie<\/em> (1981) par Jean Raspail (1925-2020), le roman <strong><em>Th\u00e9odoros<\/em><\/strong> de l\u2019\u00e9crivain roumain Mircea C\u0103rt\u0103rescu (\u00b01956) publi\u00e9 aux \u00c9ditions Noir sur Blanc narre par le menu la saga et les tribulations, au XIX<sup>e&nbsp;<\/sup>si\u00e8cle et parmi quatre territoires (la Valachie, la Gr\u00e8ce, l\u2019\u00c9thiopie et la Jud\u00e9e) d\u2019un aventurier qui se taille un royaume \u00e0 sa mesure avant de sombrer dans la fosse commune du temps<a href=\"#_ftn1\" id=\"_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>En voici le pitch&nbsp;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>D\u00e8s son plus jeune \u00e2ge, Teodor, fils de simples domestiques d\u2019un petit aristocrate roumain, ambitionne de devenir empereur, d\u2019\u00e9galer cet Alexandre dont sa m\u00e8re, grecque, lui chantait les exploits, et, devenu adulte, il ne reculera devant rien, aucun forfait, aucun m\u00e9fait, pour atteindre ce but.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Des lettres fi\u00e9vreuses adress\u00e9es \u00e0 sa m\u00e8re \u00e9maillent le r\u00e9cit et le montrent sillonnant l&rsquo;archipel grec et le Levant qu\u2019il \u00e9cume avec une bande de pirates sans scrupules, hommes et femmes, et il y d\u00e9crit autant qu\u2019il les r\u00eave sa vie aventureuse et les actions cruelles et audacieuses de sa qu\u00eate de pouvoir et de richesses&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finalement, Teodor, Th\u00e9odoros, deviendra T\u00e9wodros&nbsp;II, souverain d\u2019\u00c9thiopie, avant de mourir, en 1868, en combattant les soldats de la reine Victoria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ce texte \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9criture fluide, fort bien document\u00e9 et parfois gaillard, s\u2019av\u00e8re foisonnant et captivant, allant de rebondissement en rebondissement \u00e0 la mani\u00e8re, <em>mutatis mutandis<\/em>, d\u2019un ouvrage d\u2019Alexandre Dumas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Une performance&nbsp;!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>P\u00c9TRONE <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong><em>Th\u00e9odoros <\/em><\/strong>par Mircea C\u0103rt\u0103rescu, ouvrage traduit du roumain par Laure Hinckel, Paris, Les \u00c9ditions Noir sur Blanc, ao\u00fbt&nbsp;2024, 600&nbsp;pp. en noir et blanc au format 15&nbsp;x&nbsp;23&nbsp;cm sous couverture broch\u00e9e en couleurs, 27,50&nbsp;\u20ac (prix France)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" id=\"_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> Nous empruntons cette jolie m\u00e9taphore de la mort au po\u00e8te fran\u00e7ais Georges Brassens (1921-1981).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Par P\u00e9trone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,53],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.satiricon.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24213"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.satiricon.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.satiricon.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.satiricon.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.satiricon.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.satiricon.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24215,"href":"https:\/\/www.satiricon.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24213\/revisions\/24215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.satiricon.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.satiricon.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.satiricon.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}