{"id":1091,"date":"2006-06-15T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-15T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smalltalks.eu\/blog\/?p=1091"},"modified":"2026-10-05T19:57:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T17:57:18","slug":"livres-a-lire-les-naufrages-du-batavia-simon-leys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smalltalks.eu\/blog\/2006\/06\/15\/livres-a-lire-les-naufrages-du-batavia-simon-leys\/","title":{"rendered":"Livres \u00e0 lire : Les Naufrag\u00e9s du Batavia (Simon Leys)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">En 1629, le <em>Batavia<\/em>, fleuron de la Compagnie n\u00e9erlandaise des Indes orientales, fait naufrage sur un archipel de corail au large de l&#8217;Australie. Les quelque trois cents survivants tombent sous la coupe de l&#8217;un des leurs, Jeronimus Cornelisz, un psychopathe visionnaire qui, avec une poign\u00e9e de disciples, entreprend m\u00e9thodiquement de les massacrer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Simon Leys, de son vrai nom Pierre Ryckmans, sinologue belge et grand \u00e9crivain, raconte cette histoire vraie en une soixantaine de pages d&#8217;une sobri\u00e9t\u00e9 saisissante, et s&#8217;interroge : comment des hommes ordinaires basculent-ils dans l&#8217;horreur ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Pourquoi le lire<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Une histoire malheureusement vraie, qu&#8217;on souhaiterait fausse, et qui nous laisse m\u00e9ditatif et pantois. Heureusement, il y a d&#8217;autres versants \u00e0 l&#8217;humanit\u00e9, sinon\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Les Naufrag\u00e9s du Batavia, suivi de Prosper, Simon Leys (Arl\u00e9a, 2003). Fiche : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.babelio.com\/livres\/Leys-Les-naufrages-du-Batavia-suivi-de-Prosper\/10822\">Babelio<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>En 1629, le Batavia, fleuron de la Compagnie n\u00e9erlandaise des Indes orientales, fait naufrage sur un archipel de corail au large de l&#8217;Australie. Les quelque trois cents survivants tombent sous la coupe de l&#8217;un des leurs, Jeronimus Cornelisz, un psychopathe visionnaire qui, avec une poign\u00e9e de disciples, entreprend m\u00e9thodiquement de les massacrer. Simon Leys, de son vrai nom Pierre Ryckmans, sinologue belge et grand \u00e9crivain, raconte cette histoire vraie en une soixantaine de pages d&#8217;une sobri\u00e9t\u00e9 saisissante, et s&#8217;interroge :&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/smalltalks.eu\/blog\/2006\/06\/15\/livres-a-lire-les-naufrages-du-batavia-simon-leys\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1086,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[305,384,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-histoire","category-livres-a-lire","category-theme-ethique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smalltalks.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smalltalks.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smalltalks.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smalltalks.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smalltalks.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/smalltalks.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1096,"href":"https:\/\/smalltalks.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091\/revisions\/1096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smalltalks.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smalltalks.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smalltalks.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smalltalks.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}