Le noir roman de Jean-Pierre Martinet

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It is difficult to recommend reading Martinet’s works to just anyone, to strangers whose shoulders you do not know will be broad enough to absorb the shock.
Because we do not immerse ourselves in a book by Martinet as we turn on the television or surf the Internet, with a distracted eye, to relax. “Reading for pleasure” seems out of place here. It seems more appropriate to speak of an initiatory ordeal and morbid aesthetic pleasure, as the writing is as beautiful as the words are desperate.

We have never read a more pessimistic writer than Martinet, his universe is of a frightening darkness, woven of shadows and mud. No friendship is possible between beings, love, even less. Any relationship is doomed to failure.

Reading Martinet is a powerful experience that plunges us into the depths of our own abyss, into the murky waters of our most archaic unconscious, where violence rubs shoulders with abjection.

However, perhaps that is what is troubling, we sometimes feel a disappointed humanism surfacing, a tenderness swallowed by dint of having been reprimanded.

Nils Warolin

Nils Warolin. Photographer, director. Art historian by training,
Nils Warolin began his professional life as an editor at Flammarion, assistant to Adam Biro (art books) then to Françoise Verny.
Author of several works on art and landscape (Flammarion, Bayard, Editions du Rouergue, Terrail…) he turned to photography at the end of the 1990s by becoming Joachim Bonnemaison’s assistant with work on architecture and landscape mainly done with a 4x5 camera. In 2000 he became a photographer for the Corbis agency.
He now works as a corporate photographer mainly for industry and architecture and urban planning firms. At the same time, he made documentaries, Gérard, Boulevards Extérieurs…, more experimental films based on fictional works by Eric Rohmer, Hou Hsiao Hsien…: Film landscapes or creations mixing texts, photographs, video, internet: Années d’oubli… In 2015 and 2016 he was director of photography on two medium-length fiction films by Noël Herpe (Au Téléphone and Le système du docteur Goudron). In June 2016, as a director, he initiated a long-term documentary on the Bois de Boulogne shelter in Paris (architect Guillaume Hannoun, Moon agency).