Un pas de côté... Et l'autre aussi

Eloge du zigzag with authors whose fantasy and iconoclastic verve shake up our certainties.

"Elle avait un si grand nez que pour l'embrasser sur les deux joues, il fallait passer par derrière." This observation by Tristan Bernard sets the tone for this show, in which Jean-Michel Ribes summons up sometimes-forgotten figures who knew how to resist seriousness - the cholesterol of the imagination - through laughter. In a nod to the tyranny of good taste and definitive morality, this wind of liberating madness, played and sung, unfolds like a mosaic in which, from Queneau to Topor, from Vialatte to Jarry, from Allais to Cavanna and Ribes himself, humor flows under the sign of the unusual and the absurd. Spurred on by the flashes of language, these inopportune mischiefs take us light-heartedly down the byways to unexplored elsewhere.

Hugues Le Tanneur