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Guy Hocquenghem |
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Articles de presse (1970-1987)
Avec une postface d’Antoine Idier.
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Si Guy Hocquenghem fut une figure marquante du gauchisme de l’après-68, puis du Front Homosexuel d’Action Révolutionnaire, il délaissa vite la prose militante en publiant essais et romans au cours de sa brève mais fulgurante existence. Un journal de rêve remet en lumière une autre facette de son talent — sa plume de chroniqueur, reporter et polémiste —, en offrant un large choix d’articles issus de divers organes contre-culturels : Libération surtout, où il fut pigiste dès 1975 puis salarié jusqu’en 1982, mais aussi Actuel ou Gai Pied hebdo .
Au fil de ce recueil posthume, on découvrira les étapes d’une pensée en mouvement qui s’obstine à repérer les nouveaux totems et tabous d’un monde en mutation accélérée, autrement dit l’archéologie de notre modernité. Trois décennies plus tard, faisons le pari que la plupart des questions ici soulevées demeurent d’une « inactualité » brûlante.
In 1972, Guy Hocquenghem, brilliant graduate of the Ecole normale, reveales his homosexuality in Nouvel Observateur : “I was a little would-be Rimbaud, a minor just longing to be corrupted”. He discovered the pleasures of masculine love with a professor when he was 15, and politics with Mai-68. But he must hide this unconventional sensibility from his comrades of the communist Union Nationale des Etudiants. After he joined the Maoist-Libertarian movement Vive La Revolution and the Front Homosexuel d’Action Revolutionnaire. In the next fifteen years, he would devote his writing talents to three activities : as
a columnist, polemical essayist, and novelist.
Journal de rêve is a tribute to his strictly journalistic endeavours, reproducing a broad selection of his articles published in various counter-culture newspapers, from Actuel to Gai Pied Hebdoincluding Libération. More than a collection of his finest works, these articles represent stages in a process of thought that dealt with a world in mutation. Homosexuality remained his iconoclastic subject of predilection, but always with an unexpected and evolving viewpoint, especially after he discovered the gay community of America. This posthumous anthology presents visionary’s intuition of our modernity and concludes with a text on the subject of AIDS and our rapport with eroticism and death. Like most of the texts gathered here, it is searingly timeless.
“[The articles] were and are impertinent, polemic, with a devastating sense of humour.” (Libération)
“Hocquenghem was a biting, ferocious and instructive journalist in the newspaper Libération. […] His articles are so interesting to discover, even nowadays.” (Le Monde)
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