Décisif

Via Mnémoglyphes (qui les collectionne), la critique du London Review of Books sur la prétendue "auto"-biographie de George W. Bush, Decision Points, est fascinante en analysant avant tout le mensonge même de cette absence d'auteur et en citant même les noms de quelques-uns des auteurs réels de cette fiction qui doit agir comme une propagande vide et rétroactive, qui n'est faite que pour être achetée par quelques Républicains nostalgiques mais surtout pas pour être lue.

Decision Points holds the same relation to George W. Bush as a line of fashion accessories or a perfume does to the movie star that bears its name; he no doubt served in some advisory capacity. The words themselves have been assembled by Chris Michel (the young speechwriter and devoted acolyte who went to Yale with Bush’s daughter Barbara); a freelance editor, Sean Desmond; the staff at Crown Publishing (who reportedly paid $7 million for the book); a team of a dozen researchers; and scores of ‘trusted friends’.

Foucault: ‘What difference does it make who is speaking?’ ‘The mark of the writer is … nothing more than the singularity of his absence.’

As a postmodern text, many passages in the book are pastiches of moments from other books, including scenes that Bush himself did not witness. These are taken from the memoirs of members of the Bush administration and journalistic accounts such as Bob Woodward’s Plan of Attack and Bush at War. To complete the cycle of postmodernity, there are bits of dialogue lifted from Woodward, who is notorious for inventing dialogue.

Le paradoxe est que cette recension conserve sans doute plus de faits réels sur cette Présidence que les 497 pages de soap opera du livre.