{"id":1417,"date":"2026-10-09T15:17:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T13:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ateliercomparatiste\/?p=1417"},"modified":"2026-10-09T15:17:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T13:17:06","slug":"la-valse-a-deux-mille-temps-de-matthieu-ruf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ateliercomparatiste\/la-valse-a-deux-mille-temps-de-matthieu-ruf\/","title":{"rendered":"La valse \u00e0 deux mille temps de Matthieu Ruf"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Simon, trentenaire fraichement divorc\u00e9, m\u00e8ne une vie dont il ne saurait se plaindre, jusqu\u2019au jour o\u00f9 il est licenci\u00e9. Au d\u00e9tour d\u2019une conversation avec une amie, il se lance dans une aventure hasardeuse qui, malgr\u00e9 tout, rythmera les ann\u00e9es suivantes : la danse. \u00ab\u00a0Je suis en slip, pench\u00e9 sur la fen\u00eatre, [\u2026] face \u00e0 la v\u00e9rit\u00e9. Oui, j\u2019ai <em>trouv\u00e9<\/em>. Je veux danser, le plus possible\u00a0\u00bb (p. 139).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">L\u2019humour discret de Simon d\u00e9samorce toute grandiloquence. Revenir \u00e0 soi n\u2019a rien de singulier et ni d\u2019audacieux&nbsp;: chacun d\u2019entre nous pourrait vivre cette petite r\u00e9v\u00e9lation. Lui-m\u00eame danseur, le Lausannois Matthieu Ruf, prix Georges-Nicole 2016 pour son livre <em>Percussions<\/em> (2016), fait \u00e9voluer son personnage entre nature et ville, o\u00f9 le h\u00e9ron du titre, confident discret, lui prodigue myst\u00e9rieusement ses conseils. Port\u00e9s par le regard m\u00e9ticuleux de Simon, nous plongeons dans chaque petit d\u00e9tail de son monde et r\u00e9apprenons \u00e0 ressentir ce que nos corps ne percevaient plus&nbsp;: le sol, le poids, le vent dans les cheveux, le contact de la peau contre celle d\u2019un autre \u00eatre humain. Ce parti pris contemplatif a son revers. L\u2019intrigue avance parfois \u00e0 pas lents, au risque de lasser le lecteur press\u00e9. C\u2019est pourtant l\u00e0 que r\u00e9side la justesse du roman, qui nous rappelle que l\u2019essentiel tient \u00e0 peu de choses&nbsp;: une baignade au bord d\u2019un lac, une conversation avec un ami ou encore une course de caisses \u00e0 savon. Chaque temps de la valse compte. Un livre \u00e0 lire comme on danse, pas \u00e0 pas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-l-039-atelier-comparatiste wp-block-embed-l-039-atelier-comparatiste\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"wYqsMpGKIU\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ateliercomparatiste\/vanessa-castiglia\/\">Vanessa Castiglia<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u00ab\u00a0Vanessa Castiglia\u00a0\u00bb \u2014 L&amp;apos;Atelier comparatiste\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ateliercomparatiste\/vanessa-castiglia\/embed\/#?secret=RCqkYyPc7n#?secret=wYqsMpGKIU\" data-secret=\"wYqsMpGKIU\" width=\"580\" height=\"327\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Licenci\u00e9, Simon trouve enfin le temps de se m\u00e9tamorphoser en danseur. Avec <em>Le H\u00e9ron et son Double<\/em>, Matthieu Ruf signe un roman tendre et plein d\u2019humour qui nous invite \u00e0 ralentir et \u00e0 r\u00e9habiter notre corps, un pas apr\u00e8s l\u2019autre. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1003209,"featured_media":1419,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,193],"tags":[221],"class_list":["post-1417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-critique","category-critique-litteraire-2026","tag-ruf-matthieu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ateliercomparatiste\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ateliercomparatiste\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ateliercomparatiste\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ateliercomparatiste\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1003209"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ateliercomparatiste\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ateliercomparatiste\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1418,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ateliercomparatiste\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417\/revisions\/1418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ateliercomparatiste\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ateliercomparatiste\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ateliercomparatiste\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ateliercomparatiste\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}