{"id":1468,"date":"2026-11-10T16:06:30","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T15:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ateliercomparatiste\/?p=1468"},"modified":"2026-11-10T16:06:31","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T15:06:31","slug":"mefiez-vous-des-iguanes-retors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ateliercomparatiste\/mefiez-vous-des-iguanes-retors\/","title":{"rendered":"M\u00e9fiez-vous des iguanes retors\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Un iguane charismatique, beaucoup de coriandre et une ville assi\u00e9g\u00e9e\u202f: voici les ingr\u00e9dients composant l\u2019intrigue des <em>Martinets de la Place des Hogendr\u00fcs,<\/em> premier roman de Paul Castellano, par ailleurs compositeur, beatmaker et producteur genevois. Le narrateur, Ucre Subreptice, y relate ses aventures au sein d\u2019un monde absurde et d\u2019un r\u00e9gime autoritaire. D\u2019abord fervent d\u00e9fenseur du pr\u00e9sident Boniface, Ucre voit ses convictions politiques et philosophiques progressivement \u00e9branl\u00e9es. Le parcours de ce personnage un peu na\u00eff encourage ainsi le lecteur non seulement \u00e0 se m\u00e9fier des mensonges confortables, mais encore \u00e0 les combattre.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Si le roman d\u00e9crit un syst\u00e8me politique sombre, qui n\u2019h\u00e9site pas \u00e0 faire usage d\u2019une r\u00e9pression sanglante contre une r\u00e9sistance plus optimiste qu\u2019efficace, les pirouettes stylistiques et l\u2019humour omnipr\u00e9sent donnent au r\u00e9cit un ton presque l\u00e9ger. Les notes de bas de page loufoques, \u00e9crites par des historiens imagin\u00e9s, font sourire et indiquent que le r\u00e9cit d\u2019Ucre est un objet d\u2019\u00e9tudes, une relique d\u2019un temps pass\u00e9. Les expressions d\u00e9form\u00e9es et les chapitres amput\u00e9s au profit de sp\u00e9culations sur la nature divine de Boniface font miroiter une r\u00e9alit\u00e9 distordue : le lecteur comprend alors qu\u2019il devrait se m\u00e9fier des v\u00e9rit\u00e9s pr\u00e9tendument objectives, de la m\u00eame mani\u00e8re qu\u2019Ucre&nbsp; aurait d\u00fb se m\u00e9fier des belles paroles de l\u2019iguane nomm\u00e9 Johnny Caprese.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/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=\"j1uDV8KLTv\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ateliercomparatiste\/valentina-alksnis\/\">Valentina Alksnis<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u00ab\u00a0Valentina Alksnis\u00a0\u00bb \u2014 L&amp;apos;Atelier comparatiste\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ateliercomparatiste\/valentina-alksnis\/embed\/#?secret=PcpTQ8Qr3Q#?secret=j1uDV8KLTv\" data-secret=\"j1uDV8KLTv\" width=\"580\" height=\"327\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humour, illusion et aventure s\u2019entrem\u00ealent habilement dans <em>Les Martinets de la Place des Hogendr\u00fcs<\/em> de Paul Castellano, mettant le lecteur en garde contre des iguanes tr\u00e8s \u00e9loquents et les mensonges trop confortables.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1003238,"featured_media":1469,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,193],"tags":[229],"class_list":["post-1468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-critique","category-critique-litteraire-2026","tag-castellano-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ateliercomparatiste\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468","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\/1003238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ateliercomparatiste\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ateliercomparatiste\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1470,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ateliercomparatiste\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468\/revisions\/1470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ateliercomparatiste\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ateliercomparatiste\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ateliercomparatiste\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ateliercomparatiste\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}