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Jacques Abeille, né le  à Lyon et mort le  à Libourne, est un écrivain français. Influencé par le mouvement surréaliste auquel il participera dans les années 1960-1970, il est principalement connu pour le cycle romanesque organisé autour d'un univers imaginaire initié par la publication au début des années 1980 des Jardins statuaires. Il a par ailleurs écrit plusieurs recueils de poésie et de nouvelles, et est l'auteur d'une œuvre érotique importante, publiée pour partie sous le pseudonyme de Léo Barthe.

Biographie
Jacques Abeille est né le 17 mars 1942 dans le 6e arrondissement de Lyon d'une relation bi-adultérine. Son père, Valentin Abeille (1907-1944) - engagé dans la Résistance et opposé au régime de Vichy - est le petit-fils d'un sénateur sous-préfet. Afin de pouvoir reconnaitre son fils (ce que la loi de l'époque n'autorisait pas), Valentin Abeille fait établir un faux certificat de famille par le réseau de résistance auquel il appartient.

Après la mort de son père en 1944, c'est le frère jumeau de celui-ci qui recueille Jacques Abeille, l'élevant, aux dires de l'écrivain, « à bien des points de vue [...] comme le fantôme de ce dernier », dont la perte l'a navré.

Une fois la guerre terminée, Jacques Abeille accompagne son oncle, qui est haut fonctionnaire, dans les différents endroits où il est affecté et accomplit les années d'une enfance dont on devine, au fil des diverses allusions qu'il y fera par la suite, qu'elle ne fut pas heureuse.

Après avoir séjourné quelque temps en Guadeloupe, c'est à Bordeaux que se fixe le futur écrivain en 1959. Le choc provoqué par le contraste entre cette ville et l'espace ultramarin où il avait vécu antérieurement devait, associé à des réminiscences littéraires de la Prague de Kafka et surtout de Gustav Meyrink être à l'origine de la création de Terrèbre, la capitale de l'empire des Contrées, telle qu'elle apparait dans Le Veilleur du jour.

Adhésion au surréalisme

Jacques Abeille fréquente les milieux littéraires et artistiques bordelais liés au surréalisme, en particulier le mouvement Parapluycha, animé notamment par Pierre Chaveau, les frères Mimiague et Alain Tartas. Il correspond avec André Breton, dont l'entourage l'invite à se rapprocher du peintre et photographe Pierre Molinier, qui réside alors à Bordeaux, et dont il devient l'ami. Abeille participe également aux travaux de la revue surréaliste La Brèche, fondée par Breton en 1961.

En , trois ans après la mort d'André Breton, Jean Schuster décrète la fin du surréalisme « historique » dans un article publié dans le journal Le Monde sous le titre de « Le Quatrième chant ». Jacques Abeille fait partie de ceux qui refusent la dissolution du groupe, et il rejoint le comité de rédaction du Bulletin de liaison surréaliste réuni autour de Micheline et Vincent Bounoure et de Jean-Louis Bédouin. Jacques Abeille écrit en tout quatre articles pour les dix numéros que compte la revue éditée entre 1970 et 1976.

Cette activité au sein du mouvement surréaliste a toutefois laissé peu de traces : s'il est mentionné dans l'index de l'Histoire du mouvement surréaliste de Gérard Durozoi, publié en 1997, ainsi que dans L'Histoire de la poésie française du  de Robert Sabatier, où il est mentionné au titre d'auteur surréaliste, il est en revanche absent du Dictionnaire du surréalisme et de ses environs dirigé par Adam Biro et René Passeron (1985), ainsi que de la base de données du site Mélusine du Centre de recherches sur le surréalisme de l'université Paris III.

De la peinture à la littérature
Dès son enfance, Jacques Abeille explique avoir ressenti le « lancinant désir d'être un artiste », désir contrarié par « une timidité confuse, indécise et angoissée », une incapacité et un obstacle vague dont il trouvera la clé au sortir de l'adolescence, lorsqu'à l'âge de vingt-et-un ou vingt-deux ans, à l'occasion de travaux pratiques de psychologie, Jacques Abeille se découvre daltonien. « Ce fut une grande crise et un immense chagrin » expliquera l'auteur dans un entretien de 2007, qui le conduisit à abandonner la peinture pour se tourner vers l'écriture : « je suis un écrivain sur les bases d'un peintre raté », expliquera-t-il à un autre correspondant.

Le premier livre de Jacques Abeille est un récit érotique intitulé La Crépusculaire et publié en 1971 sous le pseudonyme de Bartleby aux éditions L'Or du temps dirigées par Régine Deforges. Ce texte, écrit entre 1967 et 1968, répondait à un défi lancé avec quelques amis de rédiger un ouvrage érotique. Cette expérience de l'écriture, dont la rapidité d'exécution le surprit, lui ouvrit de nouvelles perspectives, car il était englué alors dans des tentatives décevantes pour écrire des relations de rêves.

Jacques Abeille publiera par la suite un ensemble important de textes érotiques, sous son propre nom ou sous pseudonyme, le plus fréquent et le plus constant étant celui de Léo Barthe, qui apparaît par ailleurs en tant que personnage dans le cycle romanesque initié par Les Jardins statuaires.

Les Jardins statuaires et le Cycle des Contrées
Les Jardins statuaires est un roman issu d'une double inspiration. Tout d'abord celle née de la rencontre d'un jardinier grattant la terre dans laquelle il fait pousser des courges, la vision de la plasticité de ces légumes inspirant à Abeille l'image de statues sortant du sol. À cette image se superpose le projet d'un essai prenant la forme d'une sorte de conte philosophique traitant de la création artistique, perçue non pas, ainsi que le veut une tradition littéraire représentée notamment par Gustave Flaubert, comme un processus technique, mais bien plutôt comme l'accompagnement par l'artiste d'une inspiration préexistant à tout travail. En cours d'écriture, constatant l'absence de femmes dans le conte en cours de rédaction, ce qui lui semblait plutôt incongru pour un texte traitant de l'inspiration artistique, Abeille en vint à imaginer un récit prenant place dans un lieu, les jardins statuaires, d'où les femmes, cloitrées, sont exclues physiquement, gardées qu'elles sont dans des quartiers réservés et inaccessibles aux hommes ou bien reléguées dans des hôtels qui sont en réalité des maisons closes.

Les Jardins statuaires devait être publié par Régine Desforges, avec qui le contrat d'édition avait été signé. Mais la faillite de la maison d'édition L'Or du temps empêche cette publication. Abeille confie alors le tapuscrit du roman à Julien Gracq, avec lequel il est alors en relation, afin que celui-ci le remette à José Corti, éditeur historique des publications surréalistes. Mais le tapuscrit s'est semble-t-il perdu et n'arrivera jamais entre les mains de Corti. C'est finalement Bernard Noël qui, plusieurs années plus tard, découvrant un autre exemplaire dactylographié du roman, entreprend de le publier chez Flammarion, où il est alors éditeur. Mais un retard de fabrication entrave la sortie du livre, qui pâtit de plus du départ de Bernard Noël de son poste d'éditeur en 1983. diverses autres péripéties entraveront les éditions du roman qui inaugure le Cycle des Contrées, qui acquiert alors le statut de roman maudit.

Jacques Abeille n'en publie pas moins en 1986, toujours chez Flammarion, un deuxième roman de ce qui devient alors un cycle romanesque, avec Le Veilleur du jour, qui est en quelque sorte le pendant des Jardins statuaires : l'action des deux romans est à peu près simultanée, et celle du dernier se situe à l'autre extrémité de l'empire imaginé par Abeille, dans la ville capitale de Terrèbre. Un troisième roman, dont la première ébauche date de 1977, évoque la période suivant l'invasion barbare dans l'attente de laquelle vivent les habitants de Terrèbre comme ceux des Jardins statuaires. Intitulé tout d'abord Un homme plein de misère, en référence à la célèbre formule de Pascal, il est finalement publié en 2011, sous la forme d'un double roman : Les Barbares et La Barbarie, aux éditions Attila.

La Clef des ombres, roman d'une tonalité sensiblement différente de celle des autres romans et nouvelles, quoique situé à Journelaime, ville des Contrées, n'a pendant un temps plus été inclus dans le cycle alors qu'il l'était lors de sa parution en 1991. Après avoir envisagé d'en faire le premier volume d'un autre projet romanesque intitulé « Le Cycle des chambres », La Clef des ombres a finalement de nouveau été intégré au "Cycle des contrées" lors de sa réédition aux éditions du Tripode en 2020, année où a également été publié La Vie de l'explorateur perdu, dernier roman du cycle des contrées dans lequel réapparait Brice Cléton, le protagoniste de La Clef des ombres.

Le cycle inclut également trois recueils de nouvelles : Les Voyages du fils (publié pour la première fois sous ce titre en 2008 puis, dans une réédition augmentée, en 2016), Les Chroniques scandaleuses de Terrèbre (1995), recueil de nouvelles érotiques signées Léo Barthe et mettant en scène les personnages du Veilleur du jour, enfin Les Carnets de l'explorateur perdu, publié pour la première fois en 1993 puis en 2020 dans une édition augmentée. Par ailleurs, deux textes plus brefs, La Grande danse de la réconciliation, dont le narrateur est le même que celui des nouvelles des Voyages du fils (2016) et qui a ensuite été repris dans la nouvelle édition des Carnets de l'explorateur perdu, ainsi que Les Mers perdues (2010) sont incluss dans le cycle.

Une reconnaissance tardive
L'œuvre de Jacques Abeille est restée longtemps confidentielle, ce dernier se qualifiant lui-même d'écrivain obscur, situation d'autant plus ironique que les textes du Cycle des Contrées thématisent cette obscurité, puisqu'ils mettent en scène, après leur écriture et leur publication, leur propre disparition, par la destruction, l'oubli ou la censure. Cette situation change à partir de 2010, lorsque les éditions Attila entreprennent de rééditer les romans du cycle et que, frappés de la proximité qu'ils décèlent entre l'œuvre d'Abeille et celle du dessinateur et scénographe belge François Schuiten, les éditeurs le contactent en lui proposant d'en illustrer la couverture. Après lecture du roman, Schuiten accepte et propose même à Abeille d'écrire un texte accompagnant une série de dessins inédits. Cette collaboration donne naissance aux Mers perdues, considéré par Abeille comme une coda au Cycle des Contrées. C'est la publication simultanée des deux ouvrages, celui élaboré avec Schuiten et la réédition des Jardins statuaires, qui selon Abeille a permis à son œuvre de sortir de l'obscurité où elle était jusqu'alors cantonnée.

Signes de cette reconnaissance, Jacques Abeille a reçu en 2010 une mention spéciale du Prix Wepler pour l'ensemble de son œuvre, qui a également été récompensée en 2015 par le Prix Jean-Arp de littérature francophone puis, en 2021, par le Prix spécial de l'Imaginaire

Études, carrière professionnelle et vie privée
Après avoir entamé des études d'ethnologie, Jacques Abeille poursuit des études de psychologie puis de philosophie, matière qu'il enseigne une dizaine d'années en qualité d'adjoint d'enseignement, à la suite desquelles il est admis à l'agrégation d'arts plastiques. Sa carrière d'enseignant, qu'il décrit comme celle d'un « banal professeur de province », répondait selon lui au désir d'un « homme qui, contre la singularité du sort que lui fait sa naissance, se bat toute sa vie durant pour parvenir à une existence banale : exercer un métier sans ambition, constituer un couple solide, avoir des enfants et les choyer. » Existence sans heurts nécessitant des efforts qui, pour être supportables, devaient être tempérés par « la nécessité de cultiver un jardin secret », qui prit pour Abeille, une fois la peinture abandonnée, la forme de l'écriture.

La carrière enseignante de Jacques Abeille s'achève en 2002. Il était marié et père de trois enfants.

Aspects de l'œuvre

En marge de la tradition française esthétique et auctoriale
Dans le discours qu'il a écrit en 2015 à l'occasion de la remise du prix Jean-Arp de littérature francophone, Jacques Abeille a précisé ce qui selon lui différencie son esthétique de celle qu'il estime être dominante en France depuis la période classique, et qu'incarne de façon exemplaire L'Art poétique de Boileau : la valeur fondamentale accordée à la vraisemblance, dont la bienséance est un corollaire, est assimilée à une censure que rejette l'auteur des Jardins statuaires, qui remarque que cet ouvrage se situe hors de toute vraisemblance, place son action dans un temps indéterminé et ne se soucie pas même de maintenir une unité d'action. Ce refus de s'inscrire « sur le terrain du réel », la volonté de s'inscrire « à contre-courant de la dictature de la vraisemblance et du canevas romanesque » expliquent selon l'auteur pourquoi ses livres « ont mis tant de temps avant de recueillir un faible écho. » Rappelant une remarque de Gaëtan Picon à ce sujet, Abeille explique dans un entretien de 2013 que les œuvres de pure imagination ne sont bien accueillies en France que si elles ont été écrites par des auteurs étrangers, tels Lewis Carroll pour Alice au pays des merveilles ou Jonathan Swift pour Les Voyages de Gulliver.

Sur le plan stylistique, l'absence chez Abeille de la figure de la litote, privilégiée par les auteurs classiques, et la présence surabondante de la , bannie en revanche par ces mêmes écrivains, signalent un autre point de divergence avec ce que Jacques Abeille appelle « l'idéologie dominante en France. »

Un autre élément de cette esthétique est constitué par la manière dont est envisagé chez Boileau le travail de l'écrivain : comparable à un sculpteur, celui-ci a pour tâche de donner forme à la matière brute, accidentée, voire totalement informe, que constitue le produit de l'imagination avant le travail de polissage qui, en lui ôtant ses aspérités, est censé donner sa beauté à l'œuvre achevée. Cette vision du travail de l'écrivain, qui pour Abeille est incarnée de façon exemplaire par la figure auctoriale de Flaubert, consiste « au moins autant sinon plus, à soustraire qu'à ajouter. » Or, non seulement le roman des Jardins statuaires a été conçu contre cette idée de toute-puissance du travail au détriment de l'imagination, puisqu'il s'agissait de défendre, sous la forme d'un conte philosophique, le primat de l'inspiration sur le style envisagé comme un ensemble de procédés techniques, mais encore la pratique de l'écriture de Jacques Abeille se situe aux antipodes de cette manière de faire : expliquant que, pour lui, écrire, c'est « être saisi par une sorte d'état d'aliénation », qui le conduit à écrire « toujours au fil de plume », Abeille invoque l'image des disques microsillon pour expliquer sa démarche : « Je choisis un sillon et je le suis patiemment, en me fixant une tonalité. C'est ainsi que les éléments surgissent, s'agrègent. Ensuite, il y a très peu de réécriture. »  « Je ne suis pas dans la maîtrise, mais dans la captation d'un flux », explique encore Jacques Abeille.

Ce processus créatif, qui met l'écrivain au service de l'inspiration plutôt que de voir en lui un créateur démiurge, conduit à l'écriture, tantôt de textes beaucoup plus longs que prévus (Les Jardins statuaires était à l'origine envisagé comme une fable d'une cinquantaine de pages), tantôt s'interrompt sans que les images apparues ne « sécrètent un tissu interstitiel qui les entraine les unes aux autres dans une narration » ; ces images qui « demeurent, se suffisant à elles-mêmes, dans leur état disparate » sont nommées par Jacques Abeille ses « proses plus ou moins brisées. »

Le refus de la littérature engagée et de l'autofiction
Jacques Abeille explique refuser toute idée de littérature engagée : « en tant qu'écrivain, je ne veux rien avoir à faire avec le pouvoir » explique-t-il,  remarquant que cette littérature « s'accommode très bien des régimes autocratiques. » Toutefois, fidèle en cela aux postulats du surréalisme, Abeille concède que la littérature, en tant qu'elle nourrit l'imagination du lecteur, possède une valeur contestataire, qui agit selon une temporalité propre qui n'est pas celle du politique, puisque « l'imagination est le premier pas dans la dissidence. »

Toute forme d'autofiction est également rejetée par Abeille qui, tout en reconnaissant à un auteur comme Annie Ernaux une écriture remarquable, estime que « le "moi" est un enfermement. » Dans les œuvres de Jacques Abeille, au contraire, la figure du moi auctorial tend à disparaitre, et cette disparition, thématisée dans ses livres dont les narrateurs sont sans nom et sans passé (Les Jardins statuaires, Les Barbares), ou sont revêtus d'une identité illusoire (Le Veilleur du jour, Les Voyages du fils), est à l'image de celle de leur auteur qui, explique Arnaud Laimé, « refuse de se penser comme une figure individuée, reconnue de tous, qui serait capable de produire des textes sur lesquels il exercerait une autorité » et s'efforce au contraire de « s'effacer pour laisser advenir le texte. »

Influences et familiarités littéraires
Jacques Abeille avoue différentes influences, dont la plus prégnante est celle de Gérard de Nerval, à qui est dédié Le Veilleur du jour où il est qualifié d'« ami le plus intime ». Charles Duits, autre écrivain issu du surréalisme, avec qui Abeille a été en étroite relation et dont la conception de l'écriture comme une dictée rappelle celle de l'auteur des Jardins statuaires, est également considéré comme une « puissance tutélaire » au même titre que Nerval.

Établissant une liste non exhaustive d'influences avouées par l'auteur au gré de différents entretiens, Daniel Launay mentionne également les noms de George du Maurier, Julien Gracq, Jean Ray, Wilhelm Jensen, Blaise Pascal, Alain-Pierre Pillet et Gustav Meyrink. Certaines figures gravitant dans l'orbite surréaliste sont également citées par Abeille comme ayant contribué de façon décisive à son entrée en écriture : « Si je suis un conteur, explique-t-il dans un entretien de 2000, c'est à Gisèle Prassinos, à Leonora Carrington, à Greta Knutson ou à Nora Mitrani que je le dois. »

En ce qui concerne plus spécifiquement le Cycle des contrées, les rapprochements les plus souvent invoquées sont, pour des raisons thématiques évidentes, Gracq et Dino Buzzati, qui tous deux ont décrit le climat sourdement oppressant que fait peser sur un pays imaginaire l'attente d'une invasion barbare de plus en plus probable et imminente. Le nom de l'auteur du Seigneur des anneaux revient également, l'auteur des Jardins statuaires ayant ainsi été qualifié par Pascal Maillard (coordinateur du prix Jean-Arp de littérature francophone) de
« Tolkien qui aurait su écrire dans la langue de Proust, de Breton ou de Gracq. » Anne Besson a de son côté rapproché certains des procédés utilisés par Jacques Abeille (pratique des hyperonymes, mise en abyme de la fiction...) de ceux qu'emploie Antoine Volodine, et le souci ethno-anthropologique qui anime les narrateurs du Cycle des Contrées de la démarche d'anthropologue des mondes secondaires de sa création par Ursula Le Guin.

L'œuvre érotique et « l'hyponyme » Léo Barthe
Une part importante de l'œuvre de Jacques Abeille est constituée de textes érotiques ou pornographiques. L'auteur explique que l'objectif de tels textes, outre le fait d'explorer le « "continent noir" de la féminité », consiste à « faire faire à la langue ce pourquoi elle n'est pas faite », à rapprocher du sensible le langage qui désigne habituellement, non les choses elles-mêmes, mais les idées des choses (comme l'explique la théorie de l'arbitraire du signe de Saussure.) De ce point de vue, le « défi » de la littérature pornographique, qui consiste à « ramener la langue du concept au sensible » n'est pas fondamentalement différent de la fonction que l'auteur assigne à la poésie.

Si certains de ces textes sont publiés sous le nom de Jacques Abeille, d'autres le sont sous le pseudonyme de Léo Barthe, qu'Abeille préfère qualifier « d'hyponyme. » Ce nom est également celui porté par l'un des personnages du Cycle des Contrées, auteur d'ouvrages pornographiques qui se retrouve en possession des témoignages recueillis par Molavoine, le policier qui surveille Barthélémy Lécriveur, le personnage central du roman Le Veilleur du jour, et les publie, accompagnés d'un texte de sa composition, sous le titre de Chroniques scandaleuses de Terrèbre. Ce recueil de nouvelles, appelé à jouer un rôle dans la fiction (il est l'un des éléments à charge dans le procès du maitre sans nom de La Barbarie) a été publié en 1995 sous le nom de « l'hyponyme » Léo Barthe, qui se trouve ainsi appartenir à la fois à l'univers extradiégétique et à l'univers intradiégétique des Contrées.

Œuvres
Les textes de Jacques Abeille ont fait pour la plupart d'entre eux l'objet d'une publication très dispersée, chez plusieurs éditeurs ou dans des revues parfois confidentielles, voire dans des fanzines. Par ailleurs, outre les rééditions des recueils dont le contenu peut varier et les ouvrages collectifs auxquels Jacques Abeille a collaboré, ce dernier a signé plusieurs textes sous pseudonyme. Le plus constant est le plus récurrent est celui de Léo Barthe (en principe réservé à la publication d'ouvrages à caractère érotique), mais il a également publié sous le pseudonyme de Bartleby ainsi que sous celui de Christoph Aymerr (ou Aymeric). La bibliographie la plus complète à ce jour, encore que d'après son auteur elle n'est pas exhaustive, est celle établie par Arnaud Laimé et qui figure dans l'ouvrage consacré à Jacques Abeille Le Dépossédé.

Le Cycle des contrées

 Les Jardins statuaires, Flammarion, 1982. Rééd. Joëlle Losfeld, 2004. Rééd. Attila, 2010. Nouvelle édition, « Folio », Gallimard, 2012. Rééd. Le Tripode, 2016. Nouvelle édition, « Folio SF », Gallimard, 2018.
 Le Veilleur du jour, Flammarion, 1986 (rééd. Ginkgo éditeur/Deleatur, 2007). Rééd. Le Tripode, 2016. Nouvelle édition, « Folio SF », Gallimard, 2018.
 La Clef des ombres, Zulma, 1991. Rééd. Le Tripode, 2020.
 Les Barbares, Attila, 2011. Nouvelle édition, « Folio SF », Gallimard, 2018, sous le titre Un homme plein de misère comprenant Les Barbares et La Barbarie, .
 La Barbarie, Attila, 2011. Nouvelle édition, « Folio », Gallimard, 2018, sous le titre Un homme plein de misère comprenant Les Barbares et La Barbarie, .
 Les Voyages du Fils, Ginkgo éditeur/Deleatur, 2008. Rééd. Le Tripode, 2016. Nouvelle édition, « Folio SF », Gallimard, 2019.
 Chroniques scandaleuses de Terrèbre, Ginkgo éditeur/Deleatur, 2008. Rééd. Le Tripode, 2016 (sous le pseudonyme de Léo Barthe)
 La Grande Danse de la réconciliation, dessins de Gérard Puel, Le Tripode, 2016
 Les Mers perdues, dessins de François Schuiten, Attila, 2010.
 La Vie de l'explorateur perdu, Le Tripode, 2020

Chez Deleatur
 Little Dirties for Rikki, tiré à 100 exemplaires... pour les amis de Deleatur, 1981
 Le Voyageur attardé, dessin d'Alain Royer, la Nouvelle postale, 1981. Rééd. en recueil in Celles qui viennent avec la nuit, l'Escampette, 2000.
 [Sous le pseudonyme de Léo Barthe] L'Amateur de conversation, gravure de Fred et Cécile Deux, 1981. Rééd. in Les Carnets de l'Amateur, L'Escampette, 2001.
 Fable, poèmes, 1983.
 Un cas de lucidité, dessins de l'auteur, Petite Bibliothèque de littérature portative, 1984. Rééd. les Minilivres 1996. Rééd. en recueil in Celles qui viennent avec la nuit, l'Escampette, 2000.
 Famille/Famine, dessins de l'auteur, coédition le Fourneau/Deleatur, 1985.
 L'Homme nu (les Voyages du Fils I), la Compagnie des Indes oniriques, 1986 (repris dans le recueil Les Voyages du fils).
 Lettre de Terrèbre, les Minilivres, 1995 (ce texte fait partie du cycle des Contrées).
 Le Peintre défait par son modèle, les Minilivres, 1999.
 Louvanne, gravure de Philippe Migné, la Compagnie des Indes oniriques, 1999.
 L'Arizona, collage de Philippe Lemaire, les Minilivres, 1999.
 Un beau salaud, dessin de l'auteur, les Minilivres, 2001.
 L'Écriture du désert, pictogrammes de l'auteur, la Compagnie des Indes oniriques, 2003.

Chez d'autres éditeurs
 Le Corps perdu, dessins d'Anne Pouchard, Même et Autre, 1977.
 Le Plus Commun des mortels, Les Cahiers des Brisants, 1980.
 Un journal de nuit, proses accompagnant les Métiers du Crépuscule, collages de Jean-Gilles Badaire, Les Cahiers du Tournefeuille, 1988.
 En mémoire morte, Zulma, 1992.
 L'Ennui l'après-midi, gravures de l'auteur, le Fourneau, 1993.
 Le Gésir, Tournefeuille, 1993.
 La Guerre entre les arbres, Cadex, 1997.
 Divinité du rêve, L'Escampette, 1997.
 L'Amateur, L'Escampette, 2001.
 Celles qui viennent avec la nuit, L'Escampette, 2001.
 De la vie d'une chienne, tome 1 : Histoire de la bergère, Climat, 2002, Rééd. Le Tripode, 2017 (sous le pseudonyme de Léo Barthe)
 Pierre Molinier, Présence de l'exil, Pleine Page, 2005.
 Belle humeur en la demeure, Le Mercure de France, 2006.
 Séraphine la kimboiseuse, Atelier in8, 2007.
 Odeur de sainteté, Atelier in8, 2010.
 Le Comparse, Atelier in8, 2012.
 Brune esclave de la lenteur, avec des « petites peintures » de l'auteur, Ab irato, 2014.
 Fins de carrière, in8, 2015.
 Petites proses plus ou moins brisées, collection « Les Cahiers d'Arfuyen », Éditions Arfuyen, 2016.
 2 livres dans un étui, regroupant : Jacques Abeille, Tombeau pour un amour dans la lumière de sa perte & Léo Barthe, Petites pages pour un petit page, L'Âne qui butine, 2017.
[Avec Anne-Marie et Jean-Pierre Guillon] Un Carnet d'excursion, avec des dessins de l'auteur, Ab irato, 2021.
 Constance ou la pure révolte, Illustratrice Pauline Berneron, éditions L'âne qui butine, collection Xylophage, 187 pages, 2021. Prix Hommage au Prix Sade 2022.

Notes et références

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Bibliographie
 Arnaud Laimé (dir.), Le Dépossédé. Territoires de Jacques Abeille, Le Tripode, 2016.
 Arnaud Laimé (dir.), Les Graphies d'Éros : désir, signe et chair chez Léo Barthe/Jacques Abeille, Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, 2016
 Eric Darsan & Les 400 coups, Le Monde des Contrées. L'œuvre de Jacques Abeille, Le Tripode, 2016.

Liens externes
 Discours de réception pour le prix Jean Arp de littérature francophone
 "Le monde prend congé de moi au moment où je prends congé de lui". Entretien avec Yann Etienne pour la revue Diacritik, le 10 octobre 2020.
 Présentation et bibliographie de Jacques Abeille sur le site de la Nouvelle Revue Moderne

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The major areas for entertainment are the historical center, the Prati neighborhood, Testaccio, San Lorenzo, Trastevere, Ponte Milvio and Ostiense. In all these areas you can expect to find typical Roman pizzerias and trattorias, good restaurants, bars and pubs.
During the days, you will probably stroll across the historical center, where the most famous monuments and museums are located, or Prati and the surrounding areas, where Vatican City, St. Peter's Basilica and the Vatican Museums are. During the nights you will likely want to visit the other areas.
Prati is a regular maze of elegant streets. If you are looking for foreign food, here you can find some of the top Japanese, Chinese, Indian and Mexican restaurants, among the others. Prati is an elegant area, here you can also find some classy bars, pubs, jazz clubs and one of the best cinemas in Rome, the Adriano.
Ostiense is the rising star of Romans nights. An ex industrial area, now its brimming with life. Check out the Alpheus club, with lots of live music gigs or one of the many bars, each one with its peculiar traits. The offer ranges from classy cocktail places to alternative scene spots. Good typical Italian restaurants and foreign food for all the tastes, with a more easy going atmosphere than in Prati.
Celio is another neighborhood that is quickly gaining the favor of Rome's nightlife. It's on the fringe of the historical center, in the shadow of the Coliseum. Ethnic food, small theatres, good restaurants and cocktail bars dot the area. This area is also quickly becoming one of the hot spots of the gay scene.
Testaccio is your best bet for clubs and discos. Some of the most popular clubs in Rome are here. Here you can also find the most famous gay clubs in Rome.
San Lorenzo is a destination preferred by students, with cheap, lively and peculiar bars, pubs and pizzerias. Ethnic shops dot the area and a few punks still walk the streets. Most of the pubs here have a theme, be it a recreation of the traditional English pub, a horror or fantasy theme, furniture inspired by movies or other crazy ideas.
Trastevere has been, is and will be one of the hearts of the nightlife in Rome. The narrow, quant roads are full of people walking, street artists performing, the most typical roman restaurants you will ever find, alternative bars, theatres and clubs. Many foreigners come here, because it's one of the most famous areas in Rome and because you can find many foreign tourists.
Ponte Milvio is the most ancient still standing bridge across the Tiber bridge. The square on the left bank of the bridge attracts many upper class youngsters that flock the two kiosks and few bars of the area. There are a few good bars and restaurants in here, but most of the people just stay in the square to check out the other and be checked out. Strolling in Ponte Milvio is like being at an open air fashion show.
Finally, the historical center has a little bit of each area and then some, because everywhere around you there are the vestige of ancient Rome. Piazza Navona and Campo dei Fiori are just two of the many spots in the area.
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Men in Rome can be intimidating, with their direct approach, whistles, loud voices and habit of touching you while speaking. But don't be afraid, it's just how Italians behave and a stern look or ignoring them altogether can make them understand that you don't want company. Most of the men are harmless but some men try to get away with a little more with foreign women. When in doubt, take your cues from the Roman women, they do not tolerate it.
Italians do enjoy drinking, but they haven't the culture of getting wasted like their northern Europe cousins. Most alcohol is consumed slowly, and usually with food, instead of just to get drunk. You may find a group of really drunk boys, but it's not a common sight and in cities like Rome, it is often tourists anyway.
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Oracle DB: How can I write query ignoring case?

I have an sql query it and the where condition contains english and arabic characters so i can not use toupper or tolower because the arabic characters will be shown as question marks.
DBMS is oracle

A: You mean lower() and upper() right?
Oracle supports many different languages, which means you need to use a nls function. In this case nls_lower.
select nls_lower('my string', 'NLS_SORT = ARABIC') from dual

This may cause problems with latin characters - it's worth checking your output, so you might want to do something similar to the below to mitigate:
select case when instr(lower('my_string'),'?') > 0
                 then nls_lower('my string', 'NLS_SORT = ARABIC')
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By Mark Macesich on May 6, 2019
Extended warranty.
You may have heard this term if you're shopping for a vehicle.
It's easily the most recognizable finance-and-insurance (F&I) product generally available to new-car buyers at the dealership when they make their purchase – with 62 percent of shoppers telling Cox Automotive that they are familiar with the product.
Of course, that means that nearly four in 10 shoppers are not aware of extended warranties. And even more car buyers are unaware that there are other F&I products available.
"Available for both new and used vehicles, extended warranties are normally pitched as extra security for car buyers, reducing the risk of expensive repairs that might not be covered by the factory warranty," said Consumer Reports (CR), the nonprofit product-testing company.
"Indeed, peace of mind was the most common reason given by [CR] survey respondents for purchasing the coverage, and for many that may be a sufficient motive."
Key features of extended warranties, according to CR:
Many types of plans are available through dealerships, auto clubs, insurance companies, etc.
Most sellers offer more than one plan from bumper-to-bumper to less comprehensive.
Plans generally provide three to five years of vehicle coverage.
Other F&I products are a lot less familiar to the vehicle shoppers who likely will be offered the opportunity to purchase them, reports Cox Automotive in a Car Buyer Journey study.
These products, followed by the percentage of shoppers who are NOT familiar with them, are maintenance plans, 60 percent; GAP insurance, 64 percent; service contracts, 65 percent; tire and wheel protection, 76 percent; theft protection, 81 percent, and lost or stolen key replacement, 84 percent.
Here's what they are:
Maintenance plans are pre-paid contracts available for new cars without a factory-backed plan or used cars sold by a dealership, J.D. Power says. They cover scheduled maintenance spelled out in the vehicle owner's manual for a specific time period or mileage.
GAP coverage or guaranteed asset protection – often referred to as "GAP insurance" – is intended to make up part or all the difference between collision insurance coverage if a damaged vehicle no longer can be driven and the amount the buyer still owes on it. For more on this subject, see What GAP coverage is and why you may want it when you buy a car.
Vehicle service contracts provide for certain repairs or services and cost extra, unlike a warranty that comes with a car and is included in the price, says the Federal Trade Commission. Sometimes called an "extended warranty," it is different as defined by federal law.
Tire and wheel protection provides coverage in the event of damage to your tires or wheels as a result of road hazards such as metal, nails, glass, debris, potholes, etc., says AutoNation.
Theft protection plans are pretty much what they sound like – deterrent and recovery systems that may include financial benefit if they fail to prevent theft and your vehicle is a total loss.
Lost or stolen key replacement covers you for hundreds of dollars for a new key and programming, and possibly to replace locks, which can cost even more, says insurance.com.
Other ancillary products may be available, including paintless dent repair and windshield chip repair.
"It's always helpful to know what types of products may be available to you at the time you purchase your vehicle," says Auto Consumer Information (ACI) on its website. "It's also a good idea to be aware of the different options available for each type [of product]."
Whether to buy any of these products when you purchase a vehicle is up to you. But, says ACI, "You should be armed with as much knowledge as possible about all of your options."
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Mark Macesich is an experienced writer and editor whose background includes six years in marketing communications with national auto lender Santander Consumer USA, where he works on several consumer/customer and business-to-business blogs and other customer- and dealer-facing content.
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Arrest of several dual-national Iranians could be politically motivated
ReutersJuly 19, 2016
Montreal academic Homa Hoodfar was preparing to return to Canada from Iran in March when agents from Iran's powerful paramilitary Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps raided her Tehran home and took her laptop, phone, books and passport, her family said.
Over the course of the next three months, Hoodfar, an Iranian, Canadian and Irish citizen, was called in regularly for day-long interrogations. On June 6, she went in for yet another interrogation session but was not released.
Nine days later, the hardline Mashregh site, which is affiliated with the Revolutionary Guards, published what it alleged were her crimes: creating security problems within the Islamic Republic by taking part in feminist activities.
It pointed to her link with Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML), a network of women and organizations that do advocacy and academic work.
Hoodfar's niece said the 65-year old anthropology and sociology professor at Concordia University in Montreal was in Iran on a personal trip.
"Those allegations are not backed with any facts and they're baseless," Amanda Ghahremani told Reuters by phone from Canada.
Attempts to reach the Revolutionary Guards via their official news site and the media office of the Iranian judiciary for comment were unsuccessful. There was no immediate comment from Iran's UN mission in New York to Reuters about the arrest of dual-national Iranians.
In the past nine months, the Revolutionary Guards have arrested at least six dual-national Iranians, their friends and family members say, the highest number of Iranians with dual-nationality detained at one time in recent years to have been acknowledged. The government has confirmed most of the detentions, without giving details of any charges.
Analysts say the circumstances are often similar: arrest on arrival or departure from Tehran's airport, the announcement of a period of interrogation followed by a hardline website publishing a list of alleged crimes, usually plotting to overthrow the government, before they set foot in court.
The Iranian government does not recognize dual nationality, which prevents relevant Western embassies from seeing individuals who have been detained.
In March, the US State Department issued a warning noting that Iranian-Americans are particularly at risk of being detained or imprisoned if they travel to Iran.
According to former prisoners, families of current ones and diplomats, in some cases the detainees are kept to be used for a prisoner exchange with Western countries. In January, the United States and Iran reached a historic prisoner swap deal that saw Iranians held or charged in the US, mostly for sanctions violations, released in return for Americans imprisoned in Iran.
Among the dual-nationals currently being held is Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, an Iranian-British citizen, who was detained at Tehran's airport in April while traveling with her two-year old daughter. Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 37, works for the Thomson Reuters Foundation, a London-based charity that is independent of Thomson Reuters and operates independently of Reuters News.
Monique Villa, the foundation's CEO, said Zaghari-Ratcliffe had no dealings with Iran in her professional capacity.
Last month, the Revolutionary Guards in a statement accused Zaghari-Ratcliffe of trying to topple the government, a charge that her husband, Richard Ratcliffe, called "preposterous".
In late June, Zaghari-Ratcliffe's lead interrogator presented an unusual proposal: her husband should pressure the UK government "to reach an agreement" and in exchange her case would be closed before going to court. The interrogator did not give any further details on what the agreement would entail, Ratcliffe told Reuters.
He said he relayed the proposal to the UK Foreign Office and was told they had no information about any agreement.
The interrogator also told her mother during a visit to Evin prison last Wednesday that the agreement he was referring to was an "exchange," Ratcliffe added.
The UK Foreign Office has raised Zaghari-Ratcliffe's case with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and other senior Iranian officials but its representatives in Tehran have not been granted access to see her, according to a Foreign Office spokeswoman who replied to a query from Reuters.
The timing of the detentions appears to undermine President Hassan Rouhani's outreach to the West after signing the nuclear deal last summer, analysts say.
In October, Siamak Namazi, former head of strategic planning for Crescent Petroleum in Dubai, was arrested in Tehran. The Iranian American had previously worked as a consultant in Iran for years encouraging foreign firms to invest in the Islamic Republic.
Karim Sadjadpour, an Iran analyst at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said Namazi's arrest appeared to be designed to send a signal to other dual-nationals who could potentially help foreign firms invest in the country.
The risk of detention would deter wealthy dual-national Iranians from the diaspora from investing in Iran, which would reduce economic competition with the Guards, he said.
The Revolutionary Guards are the most powerful military force in Iran with business interests worth hundreds of billions of dollars.
Namazi's father Baquer, an 80-year-old former official with the United Nations' Children's Fund, went to Iran last February and was also arrested. Baquer, who is also Iranian-American, is now in Evin prison with his son.
There was no immediate response from Crescent Petroleum.
A key event in the foundation of the Islamic Republic was the capture of 52 employees at the US embassy in Tehran in 1979 who were held hostage for 444 days.
Hostage-taking for political goals continued through the 1980s when Hezbollah, which was founded, trained and funded by Iran, captured Western hostages, including Americans in Lebanon. The complex deal to swap those US hostages for arms shipped to Iran became known as the Iran-Contra affair.
Last January, four Iranian-Americans held in Iran, including Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian, were released as part of an exchange. Seven Iranians held or charged in the US, mostly for sanctions violations, were granted clemency in return.
Last week, Tehran prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi announced that indictments had been issued for Hoodfar, Siamak Namazi and Zaghari-Ratcliffe and that their cases are being transferred to court for processing, according to the judiciary's official news site Mizan.
No details were provided about what charges any of them face.
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Jet Blue presents Human Kinda – a short film.
Do you sometimes feel like your being overwhelmed with too much information?
Smart phones, texting, the internet, your kids, spouse and family might all contribute to information overload. Life used to be much less complicated. But what you may not know is our brain is capable of meeting the demands of today's complex society, without experiencing exhaustive stress.
As Dr. William Lambos explains, it's just a matter of retraining your brain.
Sarah Miner interviews David Ryan Polgar about Information Overload. Polgar is the author of Wisdom in the Age of Twitter.
A short discussion about ways to find a balance with our information consumption in order to maximize our creativity and productivity.
A motion infographic about information overload and technology animated entirely in Flash at FIT.
Think you're a good multitasker? Know someone who thinks they are? Here's your chance to put your skills to this test! In this video, Dave Crenshaw walks you through the multitasking exercise he shares in his live keynote speeches and workshops.
'The Information Diet': Should Americans Exercise More 'Conscious Consumption'?
Information has become so abundant and so cheap that, like food, many of us consume too much of it. And what we consume isn't always the best around.
In "The Information Diet," author Clay Johnson lays out the case for conscious consumption.


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William Parker, 11th Baron Monteagle's claim to fame is the part he played in the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot.
which in today's money is about £67,000, some of which he invested in projects abroad.
William Parker, was born in 1575 the son of Edward Parker, 12th Baron Morley and his wife Elizabeth Stanley.
and hiding among the barrels was one Guy Fawkes.
And the rest, they say, is history.


More than 500,000 water heaters were recently recalled after officials determined that "their gas burner screens can develop tears, posing a fire hazard." According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, the recall includes about "616,000 A. O. Smith Ultra-Low NOx water heaters." The faulty water heaters were manufactured between April 8, 2011, and August 1, 2016.
More than 500,000 water heaters were recently recalled after officials determined that "their gas burner screens can develop tears, posing a fire hazard." According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), the recall includes about "616,000 A. O. Smith Ultra-Low NOx water heaters." The faulty water heaters were manufactured between April 8, 2011, and August 1, 2016.
According to the recall notice, all the recalled water heaters have serial numbers beginning with "numbers between 1115 and 1631." To see if your water heater is included in the recall, click here. Fortunately, no injuries have been reported in connection to the recalled water heaters.


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Hillary Clinton's had a few controversial moments already on her book tour, but this one might take the cake.
During a contentious interview on NPR's Fresh Air, Clinton scolded host Terry Gross for persistently asking questions about the former Secretary of State's "evolution" on the issue of gay marriage. In Clinton's mind, the host had been attempting to twist her words to unfairly paint a picture about her views on the issue.
Clinton publicly endorsed same-sex marriage only last year, leading many to surmise that she either withheld her true feelings on the issue all along, or had simply come around to the voting public's increasing support for the issue. On Thursday morning, Gross attempted to understand Clinton's change of heart, provoking a testy response.
After repeated questioning and several defensive responses, Gross told her interviewee: "I'm just trying to clarify so I can understand."
"No, I don't think you are trying to clarify," Clinton fired back. "I think you're trying to say I used to be opposed and now I'm in favor and I did it for political reasons, and that's just flat wrong."
She continued: "So let me just state what I feel like you are implying and repudiate it: I have a strong record, I have a great commitment to this issue, and I am proud of what I've done and the progress we're making."
The clip was flagged by America Rising, a Republican group.
Listen below, via WFPL News:
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