Arnaud Banos, either, I no longer love the sea

Preface by Michel Bussi

What does it really happen at the maritime borders of Europe? However, From the Aegean Sea to the Atlantic Road. In addition, passing through the Central Mediterranean, the North Sea Channel and even Mayotte, take the sea alongside a simple citizen that has become, out of conviction, rescuer at sea. However,

After 45 years, Arnaud Banos becomes a rescuer at sea. Moreover, Modeste Terrien, he ventures on European maritime borders, facing the brutality of the sea and the man. However, Confronted with misery. Furthermore, distress, he discovered fierce courage in Naufragés and rescuers, in this world where the worst reigns, but where the best sometimes arises.

Summary

The artist. Nevertheless, the researcher and the committed

Warning

Small glossary and details of acronyms to sail in the manuscript

First lines arnaud banos, either, i no … Consequently, and the others follow

Juliette, “she has waves in her hair”

I also want to get involved, Suzanne, 2024

Get involved? Meanwhile, Okay. Nevertheless, but with the family, Lucie, August 12, 2022, Le Havre

After -face

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Extract from the preface by Michel Bussi:

I am a writer. In addition, I often hear, from the mouths of other novelists, readers or simple commentators, that a book can change the world. Meanwhile, That words have more strength than rifle bullets. Moreover, Let them console, jostle, upset, transport, take to other lives. For example, It is the supposed strength of the power of flowers. Moreover, Of a simple song against drums. Meanwhile, Poetry against barbarism. Consequently, I heard it, and yet I doubt.

I am a writer and I must admit that it is above all a selfish pleasure. Nevertheless, arnaud banos, either, i no A lonely work that flatters the ego. Perhaps even an unconscious research of eternity. In any case, a withdrawal from the world and its reality. A leak, at least a refuge. It is certainly also a way of getting messages. doing pedagogy, disseminating good feelings or blowing the wind from the revolt, but without risk taking, behind a pen or a computer.

I am however, like most of us, sensitive to texts, words, music. Does an artist have to risk his life. give his sweat, his tears, or even worse of his time, to be credible? To take only one example among a thousand. would I have preferred that, during the Second World War, Jacques Prévert was going to be shot as resistant rather than writing the children of paradise? Of course not, but that the artist does not pretend to be “committed”. A committed writer, a committed singer, a arnaud banos, either, i no committed actor, can only be by his person, not by his art. Commitment presupposes self -forgetting to devote itself to others. Art supposes withdrawal, even if it hopes to achieve universality. It is useful and it is even essential. But it is not a commitment, in any case as I read it in the story of Arnaud.

I was a researcher, for a long time, like Arnaud. We were colleagues in geography. Faced with the problems of the world, injustices, ecological challenges, science and research are obviously just as useful. Just as the media coverage of this research by journalists is. But can we be a committed researcher? A committed journalist? How to escape the legitimate feeling of superiority. the desire to think: “I do not act, I do nothing, because I understand the issues in all their complexity!” ». How. if we have knowledge and certainties, if we realize arnaud banos, either, i no that his intelligence would be better used on paper than on the field, not to settle comfortably in a “there is a”, in a “it-would” and a “on-a-dû”, in short, how not to turn into a lessons, especially if these lessons are legitimate.

The real committed will then have a good game to take the researcher or the artist “at the word”. If you know, we show? Additionally, If you understood everything, try?

Nothing more complex, therefore, than commitment. How to reconcile the jubilation of understanding, intoxication of creation and the satisfaction of action? Be the three? Some sometimes succeed, exceptional destinies, such as those of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Léopold Senghor, Aimé Césaire … But they too. the first, had to be crossed by this dilemma: this time that I devote to reflection, to the creation of my work, not be more useful to the services of others? Can we arnaud banos, either, i no be both selfish and altruistic?

Can we revolt without getting involved? Can we denounce while remaining protected? Furthermore, Can we know and do nothing?

So many questions I do not have the answer. but one thing is certain, Arnaud’s story is a story of commitment, with all that it implies choice, risks and sacrifices.

The question and the tragic fate of migrants deserve to be set to music, told in novels, filmed and photographed. Deserve to be studied, analyzed, perhaps even put in equation, in perspective and in prospective. All this will be useful for awareness, decisions, all of this may save lives. Nothing is worse than indifference. and the question of migrants against which Western states are barricaded is perhaps the worst indifferences.

But if we write. if we look for, if we tell, let’s stay humble in the face of commitment, the real commitment. That of volunteers, that arnaud banos, either, i no of rescuers, that of anonymous.

They are the real heroes, the most talented and the most essential.

Because no poem. no scientific report, no report will never be more useful than a hand stretched to make up for the drowns.

Michel Bus