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"Pour faire oeuvre grandiose, il faut un sujet grandiose". C'est sans doute Melville qui parle ici par l'entremise d'Ismaël, le narrateur de Moby-Dick (1851). Sur les conseils d'un ami, il décide d'utiliser ses souvenirs de marin baleinier pour son nouveau livre, rédigé dans la foulée de Redburn (1849) et de Vareuse-Blanche (1850) qui mettaient à profit son expérience dans la marine marchande et la marine de guerre. Très vite, ce récit documentaire sur la pêche de la baleine va s'enfler pour se métamorphoser en une épopée tragique et grandiose. Une fois remanié, le texte fait place à un navire-monde américain (le Pequod cosmopolite au nom indien) ; à un personnage métaphysique digne des grandes figures de la tragédie shakespearienne : Achab, le capitaine mutilé, monomaniaque, rejouant le destin d'un roi biblique ; à son affrontement mortel avec un cachalot blanc traqué comme on poursuit un innommable secret, mais qui incarne aussi les immaîtrisables violences de la nature ; à un équipage bigarrré, tour à tour foule, choeur et peuple - toute une humanité où le drame le plus poignant côtoie la farce et le pittoresque. Considéré aujourd'hui comme un chef-d'oeuvre, Moby-Dick - ici présenté dans une nouvelle traduction - n'a pas connu lors de sa publication le succès des précédentes aventures maritimes de Melville. Les comptes rendus parus dans la presse furent médiocres, voire hostiles. Au point que son auteur en conçut de la rancoeur et de la colère, qu'il insuffla dans le roman suivant : Pierre ou Les Ambiguïtés (1852). Ce dernier fit sombrer la baleine dans l'oubli tant il déchaîna de violence et de haine. Il dépeint les relations "ambiguës" (incestueuses ? ) que Pierre, apprenti écrivain, entretient avec Lucy, sa fiancée, et avec Isabel, sa demi-soeur. Tenu dès lors pour un auteur dangereux, irrévérencieux et dépravé, Melville fut notamment accusé d'avoir violé la sainteté des liens familiaux. Le présent volume contient les deux romans les plus ambitieux de Melville - qui sont aussi ceux que la critique a le plus éreintés. Pour cette figure majeure des Lettres américaines que la littérature n'a jamais fait vivre, l'échec était "la pierre de touche de la grandeur". L'insuccès retentissant de Moby-Dick et de Pierre prouve qu'il avait touché au but.

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21 September 2006
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